Rantings about the Norn Brain

[Harlander]

Cuff Droppin <cuff_d...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
7cn7m5$f8f$1...@hecate.umd.edu...
>Also, one more little thing. Perhaps the problem with breeding in some of
>the smarter genomes is that the norns may be too smart. Sex Drive Increase
>still punishs just like every other increase. A norn that can link drives
to
>objects could determine other norns as bad to kiss and be around because of
>the sex drive increase. And even though mating is rewarding, if the norns
>are too smart to come close to each other, they'll never figure that out.
If
>the reaction was switched to sex drive increase --> sex drive, and no
>punishment was included, the norns may catch on quicker. I found this helps
>extremely in getting Adroit Norns to breed.

Ah, yes, but foolin' around with other norns causes a sex drive reduction,
which creates reward IIRC.

[Cuff Droppin]

[Cuff Droppin]

I'm glad to hear the ConASH, DecASH, etc. problem is non existent. And
there's definitely enough of each chemical that can accumulate to fire the
receptors? Well, then I'm wrong. As for everything about the Adroit norns,
they have gone through numerous changes and actually work well now. (They
seem to do better than Nova Subterra and at least tie with Canny in wolfling
runs.) I revamped the whole Adroit structure. I removed the two extra lobes
cause I didn't like the end result. Instead I put in an imagination lobe
(uses 2 chemicals) which links up to the perception lobe, imagines all the
possible concepts based on perception lobe data, and decides what concept
out of all the firing would be the most useful. This then feeds into the
concept lobe. That's at least what it should do, but whatever it is, it
seems to greatly enhance their intelligence.

[D Frahn]

Okay, I'm not sure where to get them. Any particular site? The new lobe
sounds facinating.

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