Been thinking a lot about the project.

The BASIC rewrite is going to improve on the Emacs Lisp version.

All improvements made to the BASIC version will be reflected into the version 4 rewrite of the Emacs Lisp version.

The timer mechanism will be very simple this time. It will be structured around a loop that counts the seconds up to fifteen minutes. The one second 'strobe' will be called the "heartbeat". The fifteen minute strobe will be called the "tick".

Every tick, hunger will increase, and other biorhythm logic will be assessed.