> He told us people often thought it was far more complex, but that's really all there was to it.
You should check out Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology. It describes an "ecosystem" of vehicles powered by solar collectors linked to their motors via simple neural networks. One of the big takeaways from it is that, even with incredibly simple networks, you can get complicated behavior that appears to demonstrate intention, when there's nothing of the sort.
You should check out Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology. It describes an "ecosystem" of vehicles powered by solar collectors linked to their motors via simple neural networks. One of the big takeaways from it is that, even with incredibly simple networks, you can get complicated behavior that appears to demonstrate intention, when there's nothing of the sort.