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the fourth and second animats approaching to a prey, he imitates their behaviour, and
approaches the second animat. So, what occurred was that the first approached the second and
vice versa, and the third approached the fourth and vice versa, as seen in Figure 55. When they
collided, they avoided each other, so the misbelief was broken, and everyone began to explore,
as shown by Figure 56.

Figure 55. Collective misbelief begins.           Figure 56. Collective misbelief was broken.

We thought about an experiment where the collective misbelief would not be broken,
or at least not as easily as in the experiments just presented above, but none of our attempts
were successful. Surprisingly, the situation was given by itself, when we were performing an
experiment on the modification of the -’s in a scarce environment. This unexpected result (as
others we have had, such as the emergence of a “nesting” behaviour) was possible because of
the complexity of the BVL and its components: BeCA and I&I.

We observed the behaviours and internal variables of the animats, and concluded the
following: At least one animat conditioned a red spot with grass. He had fatigue, so he
approached a red spot, but without any grass nearby. Without sociality, there would be an
extinction of the conditioning, but another animat with fatigue perceived the first one
approaching grass (the red spot), and he approached him. The fact that both animats were
perceiving each other approaching grass, made them, not only not to lose the conditioning, but
even reinforce it. Another animat with fatigue could fall also in the misbelief. When they
collided with each other, they moved away from the red spot, but since they remembered its
location, they returned again and again. So, they were moving around the red spot, with the
imitation and induction of the other animats keeping them in the area, as seen in Figure 57. We
then put two more animats with fatigue in the vicinity, and they easily fell in the misbelief, as
seen in Figure 58.

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