Reddit mentions of Minds and Machines: Connectionism and Psychological Modeling

As others are noting, a lot of the time what appears to be a complex behavior can be the result of a few simple tendencies. Some here are suggesting "put sticks on top of the sound of rushing water" is what needs to be encoded, and that sounds reasonable to me (though I'm no expert). My point is to suggest that there are plenty of areas where we can see how complex behaviors can emerge from simple rules. Michael Dawson has written a book called Minds and Machines that explores some of these phenomena using artificial intelligence and robots. It talks a lot about connectionist models, but it was pretty accessible, and I recommend it.