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\section{Background and Prior Work}
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Classic textbooks and surveys treat symbolic reasoning, planning/search, probabilistic models, learning, evolutionary methods, and control/estimation as co-equal pillars \citep{AIMA4,CIbook,FuzzySurvey,SuttonBarto2018}. No-Free-Lunch (NFL) theorems for search/optimization motivate pluralism: no single mechanism dominates across all problems \citep{Wolpert1997}. Biological literatures mirror these mechanisms: synaptic plasticity and Hebbian/Oja learning \citep{Hebb1949,Oja1982}, population genetics and replicator dynamics \citep{Price1970,TaylorJonker1978}, Bayesian cognition \citep{KnillPouget2004}, and optimal feedback control in motor behavior \citep{TodorovJordan2002,Kalman1960,Pontryagin1962}.

