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Quite interesting article. After graduating from a control-theory-heavy program, I have started thinking about animal movement as an optimization problem. A man
by donquichotte 6y ago
Quite interesting article. After graduating from a control-theory-heavy program, I have started thinking about animal movement as an optimization problem. A manipulator is moved into a desired position while minimizing the cost function of pain, in order to avoid damage to the body.
That would fall in the "useful painful pain" category, I guess.
- WalterBright 6y agoA lot of animal movement is about minimizing energy usage, not optimizing for minimal pain.
- donquichotte 6y agoSure, the cost-function can certainly be multi-dimensional. Energy, pain, maybe even expected value of death (e.g., take energy-intensive and possibly painful evasive action from a predator) might be dimensions to take into consideration.