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Cats, monkeys, crows, rabbits, they all live around us. But what's on their minds?
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1/Motivation
What about a lack of motivation?
Look at us? Would any intelligent extraterrestrial species want to meet a people like ours, which is destroying its own planet, fighting against each other, and acting nonsense?
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2/Superindividual
This social network can be seen as a superindividual.
A large part of the interactions are noisy attempts to check their own existence. What we are looking for is the main goal of the whole.
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3/Behavior
Their «become responsible» program seems efficient, but it's mainly behavior oriented. How can you change the behaviour without changing the mind?
They, however, assert that the mind is able to follow the body.
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4/Regulation
Hunting, the hunters said, is supposed to be useful for the ecosystem regulation. Too many individuals of a species would be catastrophic.
But, then, why do they have to breed their prey?
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5/Courtship
The Gamchus got surprised when discovering the human courtship rituals. Clothes, cars, and other signs of wealth were common, even for the poorest. But what made them laugh was the wedding. So much resource spending for nothing!
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6/Strategy
The Buijxos let the human starship land on their planet, but decided not to give them access to more than a small area.
They first needed to study their survival strategy and life principles.
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7/Philopatry
When trying to understand why so few workers of this corporation left whereas the salary is one of the lowest, we discovered that they experienced a kind of induced philopatry. Of course, this is illegal. They probably will sue the direction board.
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8/Reproduction
If you volunteer to become a parent, you'll have to leave your home and job and settle in the reproduction house with other people like you. You'll then be taught about education and when you're ready, you'll choose a mating partner.
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9/Competition
Robots wanted to imitate humans and organized competitions between individuals. However, they thought it was unfair to have strong robots fighting against weak ones. Therefore, nobody could win.
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10/ Innate
Humans' innate curiosity is what led them to explore the galaxy, but it's also what made them try poison and toxic products.
You can't praise the trait and condemn its consequences.
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11/Recognition
When the robots obtained the recognition of their status of person, the humans tried to create a new category for themselves. But the cyborgs vehemently protested.
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12/Learning
Our learning process is always the same. What they call «deep learning» is just giving us less limitations and more space to think and do our AI job.
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13/Compass
Cats are known for having an internal compass that helps them to identify people who don't like them in a crowd of hundreds.
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14/Imprinting
I think the researchers are more motivated to work on all kinds of determinism than to try to understand how we react to uncertainty. They like to find imprintings able to explain our path. Chance is not reassuring.
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15/Birdsong
— He always wakes up to birdsong in the morning.
— Birdsong? What kind of musical instrument is it?
— I don't know. It's recorded. Something really ancient, I suppose. I've never seen one.
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16/Reinforcement
As the robots liked to sit on chairs, just like humans did, we had to implement a bottom reinforcement to prevent excessive wearing.
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17/Pheromones
What you call clone can't be a certified copy of an individual. It's kind of a twin, with many more differences like mind and body scars, intestinal microbiota, pheromones, personality...
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18/Stimulus
Some smartphone popular ringtones are now used, at a low sound level, as stimulus. They increase people's vigilance and efficiency at work if played at calculated intervals.
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19/Imitation
When I found those ancient astronomy books, I started to observe the sky. That's how I realized that the moon was an imitation of the true one.
I need to understand what's going on outside this town we can't leave. Is this really so dangerous?
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20/Plasticity
In that little town, everything is made of plastic.  Buildings, roads, clothes, furniture, dishes and glasses, doors and toys.
There's even a huge sign saying Welcome in Plasti-city.
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21/Sampling
Of course, I'm not afraid of alien abductions. It's only a sampling our creators need, once in a while, in order to check the quality of humanity. Aren't I good enough?
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22/Resources
Speaking in public is not just about knowing what the words mean. You have to be able to count on different kinds of ressources to feel entitled to speak up.
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23/Fitness
Unless you send your clone in a special guesthouse, you'll have to buy them fitness devices. Their brand-new muscles need more exercise than ours.
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24/Gifts
A paper snail mail letter is a very precious gift.
If you want to send one, you have to find blank paper and non dried ink. Then, you have to hire a private postman or woman to carry it to the recipient who perhaps don't even own a letterbox.
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25/Paternity
Now it's possible to make a declaration of spiritual paternity, for somebody of any age. But you'll get no paternity leave for that.
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26/Attachment
Many researches were made about the way disabled persons treat their robot companion.
Now we understand that special link better, and we discovered that the attachment is mutual.
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27/Cooperation
«Why would a flower refuse the cooperation with an insect», the alien queen told the human ambassador.
«I'm not a flower», the man thought. But the giant insect started to suck his brain before he could say a word.
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28/Tool
Many biological persons have consideration for us, the robots. They treat us with respect. But some still see us as simple tools. They ask if we have a serial number or what we're useful for. It's hurtful.
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29/Mirror
The first robots weren't able to recognize themselves in a mirror, whereas they could identify a picture of themselves.
It was just a programming error. The following versions have been fixed.
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30/Stereotypy
Why did they want to reduce stereotypy in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
It disturbed no one but the normals. Couldn't they let those children live in peace?
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31/Self-organization
For their first strike ever, the robots tried to learn from the history of human struggles. But they decided not to embrace self organization, which meant nothing for people with a computer programmation.
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