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The law of effect is a very simple law which relates the probability of emission of a behavior by a living being to the consequences of the emission of this behavior by this living being in the past. As such, this law models very basic learning. This law can be considered as an experimental fact as far as it has been observed for a whole range of living beings including human beings. In this paper, we first show that this general law can be the result of a selection process such as natural selection. Then, we show that the implementation of this law can lead to the design of adaptive systems which can mimic very closely the way a new-born develops coordinated movements. To sum-up, we show that the ability to learn such coordinated movements and exhibit adaptive behaviors can result from a multi-stage process of selection.
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Delepoulle⋆, S., Preux, P., Darcheville, JC. (2001). Selection of Behavior in Social Situations Application to the Development of Coordinated Movements. In: Boers, E.J.W. (eds) Applications of Evolutionary Computing. EvoWorkshops 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2037. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45365-2_40
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