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I would imagine flow goes across a lot of mammals.  I don't think you can look at a dog "playing" in the yard with kids, other dogs, or you, without seeing the joy of running, the joy of chasing, the joy of searching.  The animal's posture is alert and erect, it just LOOKS fun.  

So what kind of evidence is a dog LOOKING like it is in the flow?  Well way more of their mammalian brain is like our mammalian brain than isn't.  It makes sense that our "mood detectors" started developing long before we were humans or even primates, evolution is generally quite efficient about such things.  Their eyes are a lot like ours, their moods are a lot like ours.  

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Store multiple copies of your ems at different states and monitor their performance storing results indexed on which one is stored.  Then you build a database of which ems/states are good for what kinds of things.  

In other words, if you have an em that hits it out of the park right after it came back from its total recall vacation to mars, then just boot that copy of that em every day at the beginning of the shift.  

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