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Lee - Yes, those behavioral attributes are planned. As far as a single artist-programmer doing the whole job, you've hit the nail right on the head. When I first came out with the Aquarium, at least two major companies assembled teams to create competing products. They failed because of the usual lack of communication between artists and programmers. It all comes down to who are the "monkeys". The programmers see the artists as monkeys who do the minor job of filling in the blanks of their wonderful algorithms. Artists see programmers as monkeys who are hired to do the mundane tasks necessary to bring their wonderful artwork to life. A general lack of communication and respect usually prevents anything truly wonderful from happening.
If both these creatures reside in the same brain, then a hundred proposals can flash between the two hemispheres in the time it takes for a programmer to say to an artist, "We can't do that, you moron, it would take a million clock cycles and 10 gigs of ram!"
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