RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Generating an Artificial Nest Building Pufferfish in a Cellular Automaton Through Behavior Decomposition
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 478750
DO 10.1101/478750
A1 Thomas E. Portegys
YR 2019
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/01/08/478750.abstract
AB A species of pufferfish builds fascinating circular nests on the sea floor to attract mates. This project simulates the nest building behavior in a cellular automaton using the Morphognosis model. The model features hierarchical spatial and temporal contexts that output motor responses from sensory inputs. By considering the biological neural network of the pufferfish as a black box, decomposing only its external behavior, an artificial counterpart can be generated. In this way a complex biological system producing a behavior can be filtered into a system containing only functions that are essential to reproduce the behavior. The derived system not only has intrinsic value as an artificial entity but also might help to ascertain how the biological system produces the behavior.