dc.contributor.author | Archer, Karen | |
dc.contributor.author | Catenacci Volpi, Nicola | |
dc.contributor.author | Bröker, Franziska | |
dc.contributor.author | Polani, Daniel | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-12-08T11:45:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-12-08T11:45:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-12-07 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Archer , K , Catenacci Volpi , N , Bröker , F & Polani , D 2022 , ' A space of goals: the cognitive geometry of informationally bounded agents : the cognitive geometry of informationally bounded agents ' , Royal Society Open Science , vol. 9 , no. 12 , 211800 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211800 , https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211800 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2054-5703 | |
dc.identifier.other | Jisc: 768604 | |
dc.identifier.other | Jisc: 768604 | |
dc.identifier.other | publisher-id: rsos211800 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-3233-5847/work/124446547 | |
dc.identifier.other | PubMedCentral: PMC9727502 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/25937 | |
dc.description | © 2022 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.description.abstract | Traditionally, Euclidean geometry is treated by scientists as a priori and objective. However, when we take the position of an agent, the problem of selecting a best route should also factor in the abilities of the agent, its embodiment and particularly its cognitive effort. In this paper, we consider geometry in terms of travel between states within a world by incorporating information processing costs with the appropriate spatial distances. This induces a geometry that increasingly differs from the original geometry of the given world as information costs become increasingly important. We visualize this ‘cognitive geometry’ by projecting it onto two- and three-dimensional spaces showing distinct distortions reflecting the emergence of epistemic and information-saving strategies as well as pivot states. The analogies between traditional cost-based geometries and those induced by additional informational costs invite a generalization of the notion of geodesics as cheapest routes towards the notion of infodesics. In this perspective, the concept of infodesics is inspired by the property of geodesics that, travelling from a given start location to a given goal location along a geodesic, not only the goal, but all points along the way are visited at optimal cost from the start. | en |
dc.format.extent | 24 | |
dc.format.extent | 3567764 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Royal Society Open Science | |
dc.subject | Computer science and artificial intelligence | |
dc.subject | Research articles | |
dc.subject | information-regularized Markov decision process | |
dc.subject | decision sequences | |
dc.subject | constrained information processing | |
dc.subject | geometry | |
dc.subject | cognitive load | |
dc.subject | General | |
dc.title | A space of goals: the cognitive geometry of informationally bounded agents : the cognitive geometry of informationally bounded agents | en |
dc.contributor.institution | ECS Computer Science VLs | |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Physics, Engineering & Computer Science | |
dc.contributor.institution | Adaptive Systems | |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Computer Science | |
dc.contributor.institution | Centre for Future Societies Research | |
dc.contributor.institution | Centre for Computer Science and Informatics Research | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
dc.identifier.url | http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85143709227&partnerID=8YFLogxK | |
dc.identifier.url | https://gitlab.com/uh-adapsys/cognitive-geometry | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1098/rsos.211800 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
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