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by shoo 4015 days ago
one tiny fragment of your interesting block of text caught my eye:

> If you look at the behavior of lower organisms, bugs, lizards, things with basic brains and nervous systems, all the behavior is reaction, there is no plan.

Spider. "Portia" ~600k neurons. able to solve basic pathfinding problems to reach prey, avoiding detours.

Here is Peter Watts' take on it:

http://www.rifters.com/real/2009/01/iterating-towards-bethle...