Artificial creatures form an increasingly important component of interactive computer games. Examples of such creatures exist which can interact with each other and the game player and learn from their experiences. However, we argue, the design of the underlying architecture and algorithms has to a large extent overlooked knowledge from psychology and cognitive sciences. We explore the integrat...

Sensors and internal states are often considered necessary components of any adaptively behaving organism, providing the information needed to adapt a creature’s behavior in response to conditions in its external or internal environment. But adaptive, survivalenhancing behavior is possible even in simple simulated creatures lacking all direct contact with their environment — evolutionarily shap...

This article explores the potential for description to produce in readers a sense of transspecies empathy. Rather than focusing on animal narration, I consider as disruptive “material power” (Hamon 25; Rodriguez 4). Focusing Jeff VanderMeer’s The Strange Bird (2017) and Hanya Yanagihara’s People Trees (2013), this argues that synaesthetic, or what Eva Hayward calls “fingeryeyed,” challenges not...

We present a system that can evolve the morphology and the controller of virtual walking and block-throwing creatures (catapults) using a genetic algorithm. The system is based on Sims' work, implemented as a flexible platform with an off-the-shelf dynamics engine. Experiments aimed at evolving Sims-type walkers resulted in the emergence of various realistic gaits while using fairly simple obje...

Aim: Attacks and bites of marine animals are very rare in Turkey. The highly venomous pufferfish (Lagocephalus sceleratus), which often causes systemic toxicity with its toxin (tetradotoxin), could also cause focal due to bites. Case: A 57-year-old healthy female patient was admitted the ED complaints inflammation wounds on anterior aspect leg after a fish bite. 15 days before admission, pain o...