Hi everyone, how's thanksgiving been?
I have an idea- we should restrict each cell to only sense one thing at a time. For example, if a bot is able, it should only have a 1x1 resolution view of it's environment, with no distance information. Also, if it can see, it cannot detect chemicals in it's E-grid, and vice-versa. If any other senses are implemented, they will also be mutually exclusive with all other senses, except for homeostasis-like ones. This both emulates real life AND fosters the development of Interesting-Behavior- and multi- bots. For example, to judge distance, we will need to implement at least two bots to use binocular vision.
In fact, this might have caused the cambrian explosion- once animals developed multicellularity, they could take advantage of many new senses, but at the cost of being really complex. From there, it avalanched.
What do you think?