Chronic pain agent's momentary well-being recovers to zero only when visiting the food state

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• Normal pain agent maintains mostly positive cumulative well-being and recovers before finding food after changefinding0.862
  Contrasts with chronic agent; normal model provides stable exploration bonus without addiction-like dynamics
• Chronic pain agent accumulates negative cumulative well-being across its entire lifetime in non-stationary environmentfinding0.807
  Key behavioral signature of chronic model paralleling human chronic pain experience
• The chronic agent's high performance despite negative well-being aligns with findings on chronic pain and quality of life in humansclaim0.791
  Cross-domain interpretive claim linking computational results to human chronic pain literature
• Chronic pain agent achieves M=4235.5, SD=180.3 COR in non-stationary All category (n=300), highest across all chronic resultsfinding0.767
  Peak performance of chronic pain agents across all reward categories in non-stationary environment
• The chronic pain model outperforms the normal pain model in non-stationary environments despite producing negative well-beingclaim0.760
  Surprising finding that maladaptive perception can yield superior task performance in changing environments
• Introspective agents show statistically significant improvement (p≪0.05) over no-pain baselines across most reward categories and both environmentsfinding0.750
  Main empirical result of the paper establishing general superiority of introspective agents
• There are no a priori limits on perception of stress or corresponding capacity for care; successful stress-relief reveals novel problem spaces at different scales.claim0.740
• Introspective agents generally outperform standard no-pain baseline agents across environments and reward categoriesclaim0.732
  Central empirical claim of the paper supported by statistical tests