Nested Emergence Demo

Nested Emergence Demo — Cross-Scale Coherence Propagation

This simulation is a multi-scale coupling thought experiment:

• Bottom scale: a continuous cellular field (Lenia-like) evolves over time.
• Top scale: a Boids-style swarm moves through the world.

The two scales couple bidirectionally:

• Bottom → Top: boids sample local field coherence; higher coherence increases alignment (order), lower coherence increases exploration/noise.
• Top → Bottom: boids deposit a density/influence field that perturbs the bottom dynamics.

What to look for

• Bottom coherence rises/falls (spatial smoothness / low local variance).
• Swarm coherence rises/falls (velocity alignment order parameter).
• Lag correlation between the two time series: a crude indicator that structure propagates across scales with delay.

Run

cd simulation-models/social-computation/nested-emergence-demo
python3 nested_emergence_demo.py

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