My wife and I did some fun little experimentation in 2015... we simulated a sea slug which has a very simple neural circuit / observed behavior. Basically looks

My wife and I did some fun little experimentation in 2015... we simulated a sea slug which has a very simple neural circuit / observed behavior. Basically looks for food. The hypothesis was adding a state of aggression, territoriality in nature (patrolling food), would make them appear social. It worked! We then transferred the learned model parameters to robots for fun (and people thought they were social). Note that we left the models an option to “evolve” in several ways, they always converted to being aggressive in defending food spawn locations. https://austingwalters.com/modeling-and-building-robotic-sea-slug/ https://austingwalters.com/modeling-and-building-robotic-sea... In any case, this makes sense. When you have complex systems and you apply a sort of pressure, models (or animals) will learn to “survive” because that’s what is passed on.