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.