Unmotivated behaviour: looking around and moving even without seeing food or danger

This section explores the hypothesis that humans and animals explore the environment without responding to motivating stimuli such as perceiving food, danger, or a potential mate.

• I see perception as part of an action. The head needs to be positioned appropriately, and the eyes may need to be turned and focused.
• I hypothesize that all vertebrates engage in exploratory or experimental action. Rather than just waiting passively for the relevant perceptions to appear, I think that there is activity that appears to be spontaneous and almost random.
• I shall explore this concept with a simple demo / example
• We shall explore how an animal might find food in a cage.
• We shall lay out this scenario in simple diagrams, showing movement and the path
• Like the chase scenario, we are assuming input from perception, that helps with the direction of movement.

At the moment we are just modelling the information content and some of the processing required for action.