Psyche is an experimental platform for exploring agent societies and emergent behavior. The simulation models interactions between agents with diverse personalities, needs, and goals, creating a dynamic environment where agents evolve through cooperation, competition, and adaptation.
- Agent Personalities: Each agent has distinct traits and decision-making processes.
- Resource Management: Basic resources like food and gold drive survival and interactions.
- Dynamic World Events: A central “World Agent” introduces random events to shape the environment and test adaptability.
- Emergent Behavior: Agents act based on their personalities and situations, leading to unexpected outcomes.
The initial experiment, The Village, simulates a small community where agents must balance resource management, trade, and survival. It serves as a testbed for observing how simple rules and interactions can lead to complex societal dynamics.
- Understand how agents adapt to limited resources and environmental changes.
- Explore the formation of relationships, alliances, and conflicts.
- Test the emergence of group behaviors from individual decision-making.
- Expanding agent roles and personalities.
- Introducing long-term evolution and learning.
- Simulating larger, more complex societies with diverse goals.
Psyche is a foundation for studying how simple rules and interactions create complex systems, offering insights into both artificial and real-world social dynamics.