Impulses: Programmed to Forage

From Richard Rose's The Albigen Papers:

The robot, from the beginning, was programmed with a catalytic reminder to keep it working. I prefer to call this catalyst an implant. Desire was one. Desire was not an attribute of the mind. The amoeba moves toward pleasant liquids and hurries away from irritating substances. . . So that desire is more of a faculty of the flesh.

Another faculty that seems to be part of the mind is curiosity. The amoeba also demonstrates curiosity. . . If the young calf and kid did not possess this faculty to a high degree they would perish surely before they were able to reason out the purpose of the mother's udders. And this is not a quality in the mind of calf or kid. This is an urge -- a force which drives the host -- leaving the host with little evidence of choice in the matter.