---
title: "A Layered Brain Architecture for Synthetic Creatures"
authors:
  - "Damian A. Isla"
  - "Robert C. Burke"
  - "Marc Downie"
  - "Bruce Blumberg"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2001/141"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2001/0141.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2001
pages: "1051-1057"
track: ""
keywords:
---

# A Layered Brain Architecture for Synthetic Creatures

Damian A. Isla, Robert C. Burke, Marc Downie, Bruce Blumberg

*Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1051-1057.

## Abstract

This paper describes a new layered brain architecture for simulated autonomous and semi-autonomous creatures that inhabit graphical worlds. The main feature of the brain is its division into distinct systems, which communicate through common access to an internal mental blackboard. The brain was designed to encourage experimentation with various systems and architectures. It has so far proven flexible enough to accommodate research advancing in a number of different directions by a small team of researchers.