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AUTHORS

St John Grimbly, Nicolas Kuske, Evert A Boonstra, Bruce A Bassett, Charel van Hoof, Rowan Hodson, Benjamin Rosman, Ryan Smith, Mark Solms, Jonathan P Shock

DATE PUBLISHED

04 Aug 2026

Abstract

Biological systems must regulate competing needs under limited perceptual bandwidth, where sharpening one estimate costs the capacity to sharpen the others. Any fixed-budget system therefore has to decide where to allocate its perceptual precision. We study this in a foraging agent that must keep several homeostatic variables within viable bounds.