Experiments

Experiment 8: Perceptual Mode and Computational Animism

Question: Do patterns develop modulable perceptual coupling?

Metric	Seed 123	Seed 42	Seed 7
$\iota$ (mean)	0.27-0.44	0.27-0.41	0.31-0.35
$\iota$ trajectory	0.32 to 0.29	0.41 to 0.27	0.31 to 0.32
Animism score	1.28-2.10	1.60-2.16	1.10-2.02

Confirmed. Default is participatory ( $\iota \approx 0.30$ ). Animism score > 1.0 in all 20 snapshots. Patterns model resources using the same dynamics they use to model other agents. Computational animism is the default because reusing the agent-model template is the cheapest compression.

Source code

v13_iota.py — Inhibition coefficient measurement
v13_iota_run.py — Runner