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The impact of technology on thinking about behaviour has shifted from mechanistic descriptions towards the computational stance of cognitive science and classical Artificial Intelligence. All these approaches share an output-oriented black-box rationalism, which is also the foundation of neo-Darwinistic accounts of behaviour. To gauge the limitations of this type of explanations and of ethological methods in particular, I analysed the behaviour of simple robots as if they were living creatures. This revealed interesting patterns but did not take the lid of the black box. The self-organized cooperative behaviour of the robots could only be understood if feedback from environmental changes was considered. Furthermore, the robots were not designed by "engineering from scratch" or a "problem-solving approach", but instead by an almost task-free attitude without preconceptions like "imperfect design" and "behavioural errors". This questions the use of a priori stated "costs" and "benefits", and thus is at odds with the starting points of normative and rationalistic theorizing.