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I've noticed that those who bunch together reproduce very well but the planks sometimes form death traps killing the entire group. Some creatures are left over
by swk82 11y ago
I've noticed that those who bunch together reproduce very well but the planks sometimes form death traps killing the entire group. Some creatures are left over but they seem to avoid each other; sometimes one creature is chasing the other and they don't seem to reproduce very much.
Bunching and spreading out are two different behaviors which both have their pros and cons. I wonder if the neural net is complex enough to enable them to switch between these behaviors depending on the age and ability to reproduce.
- sdrothrock 11y agoI wondered the same thing; I suppose it depends on how frequent those kinds of mass extinction events are. You might end up with two species: 1. The kinds that clump and are subject to rare mass extinctions, but get along well enough otherwise. 2. The kinds that are really good at avoiding converging obstacles by avoiding clumps. Edit: I just realized that the clumps are kind of a communication network and eventually you might be able to get a kind of clump that either is able to quickly evade converging obstacles or be self-sacrificing to save a part of the whole.
- hardmaru 11y agoI guess (1) or (2) would depend on the culture that gets evolved :)
- hardmaru 11y agoThe network would be too small to develop this complex behavior. I had to balance between having it run well in js and the computation complexity of each creature.
- swk82 11y agoIs the ability to reproduce an input value to the network?