What makes a creature?
Creature often refers to:Animal - Wikipedia
How can the electron product be called biological? According to Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology, humans seem to be good at anthropomorphizing any stress response, meaning that simple feedback to the outside world can also give the little ESP-32 robot a certain personality. In the Project SYNTHETIC RELATIONSHIPS we were asked to construct two electronic beings capable of percieving some aspects of the environment around them. Use whatever sensors are necessary to create their "worldview". Then need to connect them into a network, Adafruit IO, that would enable them to communicate their findings, and respond to the communications of their counterpart.
Zhiyan and I started from the character of the machine to conceive a behavior pattern specific to ESP-32, to consider what capabilities to give - different sensors - and to write a language, a cryptopunk of the machine, that would allow ESP-32 to understand and describe the world of experience in its own way.
Here's a little pair of Creatures that we create! They ought to have there own idea, own way of processing information.
In long distance relationship, they keep sending Love Massages to each other in every 20 seconds. Agent 1, who has a microphone sensor, will evaluate the surrounding sound level - the way he perceives the world, in 5 level, and reports the information to the cloud, which is a cloud services that they can exchange info.
Agent 2, she use a PIR sensor to detect the world, too. If someone passes around, she will perceive the stimulus and the higher the intensity of the stimulus, the higher the level of information she will upload.
In a relationship, we don't stay by each other's side all the time. Agent 1 and Agent 2, too, respond to the highest-ranking message, rank S, and also go back to previous messages, from rank N, to rank C, to rank B, to rank A.
The next thing they do is what they do best - they try to understand and recreate the scenario that the other person is experiencing.
