Abstract: A method includes defining a first virtual being (e.g., including sensory locations for sensors, sense locations for sense properties, artificial neural networks connecting sensors to sense properties) in a virtual environment. The method also includes defining an object (e.g., including sense locations) in the virtual environment. The method also includes, in accordance with an interaction between the virtual being and the object, receiving sensory input at a first sensor at a first sensory location using a first virtual medium according to a first sense property of the object at a first sense location. The first sensor, the first virtual medium, and the first sense property have a same sensory type. According to the received sensory input, a first artificial neural network translates the received sensory input into updates to one or more configuration parameters of sensors of the first virtual being or movement of the virtual being.