Nicholai Diansky

The Gatekeeper: A Cybernetic architecture for Socially Calibrated Behaviour

Social dependency changes the control problem faced by an animal. In a complex social environment, the consequences of action depend not only on material conditions and immediate motivation but also on the organism's changing position within a relational organisation generated by...

The Gatekeeper: A Cybernetic architecture for Socially Calibrated Behaviour

Social dependency changes the control problem faced by an animal. In a complex social environment, the consequences of action depend not only on material conditions and immediate motivation but also on the organism's changing position within a relational organisation generated by...

The Evolutionary Continuity of Social Organisation

Human social organisation is commonly studied through several partially separated explanatory traditions. Primatology and social ethology examine dominance, affiliation, coalition and emergent social structure; evolutionary theory examines cooperation, intergroup competition and...