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Misperception is a common cause of error for individuals and organisations. Conventional wisdom suggests that its effects are detrimental to the misperceiver or its society as a whole. However, in some circumstances misperception can provide a benefit either by diversifying the behaviour of a population or by discouraging behaviour that has a negative impact on the population. In such cases adaptive pressures will drive the population to evolve a probability of misperception that is optimal for that environment. We explore this hypothesis using an evolutionary artificial life simulation.
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Brumley, L., Korb, K.B., Kopp, C. (2007). An Evolutionary Benefit from Misperception in Foraging Behaviour. In: Randall, M., Abbass, H.A., Wiles, J. (eds) Progress in Artificial Life. ACAL 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4828. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76931-6_9
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