Emerging simple emotional states in zamin artificial world

Zamin, is an Artificial Life ecosystem, suitable for cognitive studies such as evaluation of different thinking and acting methods. Up to now, simple models for decision making, generalization and abstraction, environment perception and pleasure computation is developed and tested in Zamin. In this paper, we have promoted the two layered decision-making system of Zamin creatures, the Aryos, to a three layered emotional decision making mechanism, compared the learning and coping with predators capabilities of the new creatures with the old ones and shown that they can defeat the previous, emotion-less creatures.