A Layered Brain Architecture for Synthetic CreaturesA Layered Brain Architecture for Synthetic Creatures Damian Isla Robert Burke Marc Downie Bruce Blumberg naimad@media.mit.edu rob@media.mit.edu marcd@media.mit.edu bruce@media.mit.edu The Media Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology 20 Ames St. Cambridge, MA 02139 Abstract This paper describes a new layered brain architecture for simulated autonomous and semi-autonomous creatures that in
