EXPERIMENT 06● RUNNING
COLONY SPLIT
What happens when one intelligence becomes two?
One colony, one nest, one pheromone network. Then a wall divides the environment and half the population is moved to the other side.
Question
What happens when one intelligence becomes two?
Conditions
70×40 world with rocks, four food sources. Split at 03:20; a small opening remains.
Rules
Same agent rules for both halves.
Pass rule
No pass rule — divergence is the measurement.
Control
Left region compared against the right region, mirrored.
Limitations
Environments are not perfectly symmetric, which contributes to divergence.
How quickly can identical starting populations become different colonies?