The new mental actions are OR, XOR, and NOCOPY. OR and XOR work like AND, evaluating two conditions instead of the usual one in order to decide to try an associated action. NOCOPY skips the next meme if its action is the same action the biot took in the previous turn. I can see all of these abilities adding useful sophistication to the Biot mind. For instance a Biot could easily use NOCOPY in an algorithm that makes them curve left, then curve right as they walk, sweeping a wider area, perhaps using vision to tell them to move towards food.

I also added an action called FEED. Biots can use this action to donate some energy to a fellow biot (or even a plant!). This is a test to see if Biots will evolve altruism given the chance. I can see a parent feeding its children being a useful survival strategy. Feeding plants could even encourage farming, but I doubt biots can "think" that far ahead.

Edit: Yep. they're all dead. Such sensless destruction! When will they learn?

 The interesting thing about this search strategy is that the area a hundred pixels around each biot is hotly contested territory. When a biot feels another biot, it uses it's pikachu-like electricity power to zap the other biot, flinging it aside and stunning it for a few turns. Obviously biots this concerned with territory aren't so good at sexual reproduction. They reproduce asexually, and one sibling will zap the other away to make sure they aren't competing so directly for food in the same area.

 A little while earlier, some of the biots were attacking and eating intruders instead of zapping them, but the zapping biots quickly became the dominant strain. This is probably for two reasons. One, an attacking biot will get zapped by zapping biot before being able to kill and eat it. Two, attacking biots either compete with, or eat their siblings, while zapping biots settle territory disputes quickly and then get on with their separate lives.

 But it payed off, thanks to the speed of this computer. Right now I'm looking at a population of biots whose reproductive strategy is to 1) teleport to a random location 2) feel for a piece of fruit, or a pine-cone 3) turn until they face the food 3)  eat 4) reproduce asexually, if they have enough energy. 5) some of them hybernate in winter, while others continue on (thereby reducing competition)

 All completely unprogrammed at the beginning! These biots figured out how to eat and reproduce on their own!

 Also, I added sunflowers. Sunflowers grow very fast in the summer, but not at all during the rest of the year. They can't pass energy to other sunflowers, like grass and lilypads do. They also count as protein, food, and leafy during the summer (they are hidden during winter and flood, and just leafy the rest of the year)

Zombies can't have babies, but they can inject their (often mutated) programming into another biot just by biting it!

Zombies can be added via the ridiculously long menu, or by waiting for a special mutant fungus to appear and then wating for a biot to eat it.

Here are the sprites I made for the zombies. Spooky!

Grar!

By the way, if Brian ever gets around to setting up my wiki space, I'm going to start putting the Nerdcore Card Game rules online. I'd also like to put up a Biots wiki.