Re: is communication a requirement to collaborate?

> It seems to me that without the ability the influence one another in any 
> way, agents who are engaged in some dynamics are "ballistic."  If they 
> "collaborate," it's by appearances only: i.e., to an outside observer it 
> appears they are working together, but in reality if you erased one of the 
> agents the other one would keep doing whatever it was doing, unaffected.

According to my definition (see other response), agent1's activity
could change if agent2 is removed - the activity of agent1 may not be
observable after removal of agent2, but it could affect the mental
state of agent1. If some activity appears to be a dyadic
collaboration, then removing a participating agent from this scenario
could be the ultimate test of whether it is true collaboration or not.

I am just not sure if communication (through whatever means) is the
only ability to influence each other. Martijn has mentioned
reinforcement learning as beeing a way to influence the overall agent
activity without explicit communication among them.

cheers, Chris