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Re:“Pain Is the Only School-Teacher” by WalterBright on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:35AM (#23465117)
A lot of animal movement is about minimizing energy usage, not optimizing for minimal pain.
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Re:“Pain Is the Only School-Teacher” by donquichotte on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @07:17AM (#23465563)
Sure, the cost-function can certainly be multi-dimensional.

Energy, pain, maybe even expected value of death (e.g., take energy-intensive and possibly painful evasive action from a predator) might be dimensions to take into consideration.

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