The requirement is straight-forward: create an intelligent program.  But on closer inspection, the programmer will realize that there is more to creating an intelligent program than you can shake a stick at.  What is intelligence?  What type of data must the intelligent program receive?  Where will that data come from?  How will relevant data be distinguished from irrelevant data?  What is behaviour, and does it have anything to do with intelligence?  Does needs dictate behaviour?  If so, how the heck can needs be programmed into software?  Before the programmer can start creating an intelligent program, all of these questions, and many more, needs to be answered precisely and accurately.

This section deals with the theory side of things.

Section 1.1 - Environment (Dataset)

This section deals with ideas and theories related to a source of external input to the Animat (a virtual environment).

• 1.1.1 - Representational Diversity Requires Dynamic Numbers
• 1.1.2 - Relational Computability Requires Discrete Numbers
• 1.1.3 - Relational Computability Requires Relations Between         Discrete Numbers
• 1.1.4 - Where Animat and Dataset Collide - Farve Requires a Dataset Discrete Number / Animat Receptor Interaction Structure (Sec 2 - Structure = Table)
• 1.1.5 - Modelling Physical World Properties in a Non-Physical Software World - Elements-Element Interactions and Element-Animat Interactions - The Need for Dataset Module Structural Integrity

Section 1.2 - Animat (Intelligence)

And of course this section deals with the virtual creature - which covers both the animat’s internal dataset module, as well as it’s intelligence module.

• 1.2.1 - Discrete Processing Units is a Requirement
• 1.2.2 - Required Computation Directs Processing Unit Diversity and Design
• 1.2.3 - Modelling Physical Organism Properties in a Non-Physical Software Animat - Internal Dataset Module Element-Element Interactions and iModule Processing Unit-Internal Dataset Module Element Interactions - The Need for Intelligence Module Structural Integrity
• 1.2.x - Behaviour, Needs, Innate Reactions, Innate Reaction Adaptation, and Novel Reactions