VAN BILSEN, Arthur (2007): Evolutionary Games and Architecture
VAN BILSEN, Arthur (2007): Evolutionary Games and Architecture, En SPACEFIGHTER: The Evolutionary City Game, Winy Maas et al. 72 Thomas Schelling’s book The Strategy of Conflict (1960) launched his vision of game theory as a unifying framework for the social sciences (Nobel Prize Committee, 2005). Both topics, the analysis of human interaction and a unifying framework for the social sciences, are relevant to architectural and planning discourse. 72-73 Adaptationism is the paradigm that views organisms as complex adaptive machines whose parts have adaptive functions subsidiary to the fitness-promoting function of the whole. There can be no doubt that game-theoretic analyses work in evolutionary theory. Why for instance, are the Redwood trees so tall? Each tree is looking out for itself, and trying to get as much sunlight as possible. If only they could get together and stop competing with each other for sunlight. But they cannot. Defection from such cooperative agreement is ...