Jérôme Euzenat, Replicator-interactor in experimental cultural knowledge evolution, in: Proc. 2nd JOWO workshop on Interaction-Based Knowledge Sharing (WINKS), Graz (AT), 2019
Cultural evolution may be studied at a `macro' level, inspired from population dynamics, or at a `micro' level, inspired from genetics. The replicator-interactor model generalises the genotype-phenotype distinction of genetic evolution. Here, we consider how it can be applied to cultural knowledge evolution experiments. In particular, we consider knowledge as replicator and the behaviour it induces as interactor. We show that this requires to address problems concerning transmission. We discuss the introduction of horizontal transmission within the replicator-interactor model and/or differential reproduction within cultural evolution experiments.