@inproceedings {2014, title = {Pleasure, Persistence and Opportunism in Action Selection}, booktitle = {Proc. 14th Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE 2014)}, year = {2014}, note = {Download}, pages = {932{\textendash}933}, publisher = {MIT Press}, organization = {MIT Press}, address = {New York, NY}, abstract = {An autonomous robot must show appropriate levels of persistence and opportunism to survive. We address this problem by using a mechanism akin to pleasure that modulates exteroception as a function of need satisfaction, rather than based on internal deficits and external threats as in previous work. The different context in which the modulating hormone is released has important consequences on persistence and opportunism.}, isbn = {978-0-262-32621-6}, doi = {10.7551/978-0-262-32621-6-ch151}, url = {https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/978-0-262-32621-6-ch151}, author = {Lewis, Matthew and Antoine Hiolle and Lola Ca{\~n}amero} }