The chronic agent's high performance despite negative well-being aligns with findings on chronic pain and quality of life in humans

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• Chronic pain agent accumulates negative cumulative well-being across its entire lifetime in non-stationary environmentfinding0.845
  Key behavioral signature of chronic model paralleling human chronic pain experience
• Normal pain agent maintains mostly positive cumulative well-being and recovers before finding food after changefinding0.811
  Contrasts with chronic agent; normal model provides stable exploration bonus without addiction-like dynamics
• The chronic pain agent's relief-seeking cycle provides a computational parallel to negative reinforcement in addictionclaim0.803
  Author's psychological interpretation of chronic agent behavior as analogous to addiction dynamics
• The chronic pain model outperforms the normal pain model in non-stationary environments despite producing negative well-beingclaim0.801
  Surprising finding that maladaptive perception can yield superior task performance in changing environments
• Chronic pain agent achieves M=4235.5, SD=180.3 COR in non-stationary All category (n=300), highest across all chronic resultsfinding0.798
  Peak performance of chronic pain agents across all reward categories in non-stationary environment
• Chronic pain agent's momentary well-being recovers to zero only when visiting the food statefinding0.791
  Demonstrates relief-seeking behavior pattern analogous to addiction in the chronic agent
• Normal (α=0.9) and chronic (α=0.1) agents in Objective-only non-stationary category perform best with opposite learning ratesfinding0.760
  Suggests fundamental differences in learning dynamics between normal and chronic perception models
• Introspective agents show statistically significant improvement (p≪0.05) over no-pain baselines across most reward categories and both environmentsfinding0.745
  Main empirical result of the paper establishing general superiority of introspective agents