How Do The Activities Of Competent Lowerlevel Agents

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  Motivational statement for the benchmark design philosophy.
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  discussion of potential confounds
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  Central research question of basal cognition; addresses the scaling problem—how cognition emerges across organizational levels from cells to organisms.
• A naive agent equipped with reduced priors from an experienced agent performs perfectly with maximum confidence from the first trial.finding0.718
  Demonstration that model-level priors (not parameter-level knowledge) suffice for immediate transfer
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