[SwarmFest2004] Abstract

[Gianluigi Ferraris]

Hi,
here is my proposal for the SF 2004,

Fruit and Meat: growing trading among wild prehistoric humans guys 

This work tries to find a plausible motivation for the emergence of the 
commerce into a prehistoric proto society, uniquely based upon 
economics. The starting idea is that exchanging goods implies a greater 
benefit, from a society "as a whole" standpoint, than fighting for their 
possession. No ethical matters have been kept in mind: to steal goods is 
accepted behaviour as much as to trade. By means of a Swarm model the 
interaction among human agents and between the humans and the 
environment has been simulated. The obtained results reveal that trading 
tends to replace the fighting until the whole society becomes based on 
trading, even if the starting population was composed by am overwhelming 
majority of fighters. While completing the present version and making it 
consistent, further efforts will be spent enriching it, in order to 
study more complex topics as, for instance, the emergence of simple 
institutions and the like.



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