Minds and Cultures: Particle Swarm Implications

Particle swarm theory suggests that minds and cultures are both effects of local social interaction. This paper compares two social a laptation algorithms and proposes a view of intelligence or cogmtive adaptation as immerging from culture, which emerges from social interaction. A framework for the depiction of mental states , presented, and the optimizing effect of social interaction is -le.monstrated in a parallel constraint satisfaction paradigm. My argument in this paper will be that cultures and minds are global and local aspects of a process which can be described in terms of social interaction. I intend to draw a link between the emergence of norms and culture from local interaction on one hand, and the immergence of intelligence from culture on the other.