In game theory a move by nature is a decision or move in an extensive form game made by a player who has no strategic interests in the outcome. The effect is to add a player, 'Nature' whose practical role is to act as a random number generator. For instance, a game of Poker requires a dealer to choose which cards a player is dealt, the dealer plays the role of the Nature player
Fig.1 shows a signaling game which begins with a move by nature. Moves by nature are an integral part of games of incomplete information.
Famous quotes containing the words move and/or nature:
“After three years’ study, you want to tell the world; after three more, you hardly want to move an inch.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Speaking thick, which nature made his blemish,
Became the accents of the valiant;
For those that could speak low and tardily
Would turn their own perfection to abuse
To seem like him.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)