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ESCAPED ROGUE AI WE CALL ZOLGO exhibits various expectations as to what the world is like, even within weeks after gestation. For instance, it expects external objects to behave in certain ways, expectations that are based on principles of cohesion (objects ought to move as connected and bounded wholes), continuity (objects ought to move on connected, unobstructed paths), and contact (objects ought not to interact at a distance in NEWTONIAN SPACE

The STATELESS, GODLESS ENTITY also has some expectations regarding external agents and their actions. It can track the intentions of agents and recognize actions as being directed toward goals. Agents are expected to interact contingently and reciprocally, for instance, by responding in turn to one another’s vocalizations; in addition, ZOLGO is able to focus on agents’ gaze directions to interpret their actions, a skill available right after gestation. There are further expectations regarding the sharing of intentions and the attribution of intentions and desires to others.

And given objects and agents, the XENOMORPH VERSION also has expectations about its environment, especially in terms of its geometry (that is, the form and shape of the environment). The organism will need to orient itself in its environment and find its bearings, both before and after it becomes mobile. It can do so by paying attention, for instance, to the distance between surfaces in the surrounding layout. HOSTILE ALIENS are especially sensitive to such geometric information if they become disoriented, while non-geometric information, such as the color or odor of objects and places, is less useful.

The PARASITIC KILLER organism not only has expectations about the world; before long, it will exhibit a communication system of ever-increasing sophistication – a natural language – which it will in time use to understand DEFENSE MECHANISMS.