outline how minds work

Mechanics/Minds.md

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+Intelligence `-8`: The Ooze
+===========================
+
+The ooze has a very simple mind, and forms the basic of all minds.
+
+.so flow-8.graph
+
+If the ooze joins with smaller pieces of ooze, this works exactly like eating.
+Which eats which does not matter to the ooze.
+
+The question of whether two oozes come together through ingestion or mating is also irrelevant to the ooze.
+
+It moves forward, and embraces the good in life, without any distinctions.
+
+Intelligence `-7`: The Insect
+===========================
+
+The insect-brain acts like the ooze, but recognizes other creatures as friendly, and remembers spaces.
+The insects literally have a smaller version of the main map in their head, but they have limited memory.
+
+...they quite literally have a number of kilobytes each to remember a finite amount of space.
+
+Intelligence `-6`: The Wolf
+===========================
+
+At this level of intelligence, the creature begins to think with others.
+They do this by voting on a leader, then each of the creatures follows that leader.
+
+.so flow-6.graph
+
+Intelligence `-5`: The Goblin
+=============================
+
+This stage should probably be left until the previous intelligence levels have been dealt with.
+Options include:
+
+- Simulation: play out possible scenarios in the creature's head by simulating the segment of the map which it knows, at 10x normal speed.
+- Skills: Just list off particular things, like 'fishing', or 'crafting spears', then deal with them individually.

Mechanics/flow-6.graph

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+[ START ] --> [ damage? ]
+[ Anyone know where food is? ] <-- me! --> [ We go to food! ]
+[ Anyone know where food is? ] -- someone? --> [ I follow them ]
+[ Anyone know where food is? ] -- nobody... --> [ Do I see someone bigger than me? ]
+[ Do I see someone bigger than me? ] -- No --> [ howl! ]
+[ Do I see someone bigger than me? ] -- Yes --> [ silence ]
+[ silence ], [ howl! ] --> [ listen ]
+[ listen ] -- one howl --> [ we follow, you lead ]
+[ listen ] -- some howls --> [ howlers fight (one punch only) ]
+[ listen ] -- no howls --> [ (unreachable state) RUN AWAY! ]
+[ howlers fight (one punch only) ] --> [ Do I see someone bigger than me? ]
+[ damage? ] -- yes --> [ run opposite way! ]
+[ damage? ] -- no --> [ am I alone? ]
+[ am I alone? ] -- yes --> [ food? ]
+[ am I alone? ] -- no --> [ Anyone know where food is? ]
+[ food? ] -- here --> [ eat ]
+[ eat ] -- X=1 --> [ food? ]
+[ food? ] -- near --> [ move to food ]
+[ food? ] -- no --> [ move X squares in random direction ]
+[ move X squares in random direction ] -- increase-X --> [ food? ]

Mechanics/flow-8.graph

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+[ START ] --> [ damage? ]
+[ damage? ] -- yes --> [ run opposite way! ]
+[ damage? ] -- no --> [ food? ]
+[ food? ] -- here --> [ eat ]
+[ eat ] -- X=1 --> [ food? ]
+[ food? ] -- near --> [ move to food ]
+[ food? ] -- no --> [ move X squares in random direction ]
+[ move X squares in random direction ] -- increase-X --> [ food? ]

Mechanics/parse.sh

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+#!/bin/sh
+
+target="$1"
+
+while read -r line; do
+echo "$line" | grep -q '^.so ' && \
+    file="$(echo "$line" | grep '^.so ' | cut -d' ' -f2 )" && \
+    [ -e "$file" ] && \
+    echo '```graph' && \
+    cat "$file" | graph-easy --boxart && \
+    echo '```' || \
+    echo "$line"
+done < "$target"