Re: The Evolutionarily Stable Strategy A.K.A ESS

I think I understand your questions and confusion. Evolutionarily Stable
Strategies don't require anything in particular of individuals in the ways
assumed by your questions. ESS's are expected to emerge through the
evolution of populations without depending on particular mechanisms. This
sort of analysis typically assumes that evolution will find any available
mechanism to guide the behavior of individuals such that the ESS is
achieved. Consciousness, and any other particular mechanism, need not be
involved.

Guy


in article fjs2l5$lic$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, rAgAv at
ragav.payne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 12/13/07 11:54 AM:

Hello,

I've just got a small introduction to ESS (through "The selfish
Gene";well, I'm a beginner) and I had the following questions:-

Are the individuals in a species conscious of the ESS trends and their
adaption to them?

If they unconsciously adapt an ESS, then what ( or which parts of
their brains) decides that the individual should follow the trends?


What is the nature of the threshould information that an individual
requires to change from one strategy to the ESS? For instance, would
the individual require direct bruises caused due to its lack of ESS to
adapt to ESS? If yes, then how would a survival machine find the ESS?
How does it find the ESS? Through trial-and-error or through memory-
and-contemplation?

Hope you uderstand the context of my questions.

Regards.



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