Experiments

Experiment 4: Emergent Language

Question: When do patterns develop structured, compositional communication?

Seed	MI significant	MI range	$\rho_{\text{topo}}$ significant
123	4/6	0.019-0.039	0/6
42	7/7	0.024-0.030	0/7
7	4/7	0.023-0.055	0/7

Finding: Chemical commons, not proto-language. MI above baseline in 15/20 snapshots but $\rho_{\text{topo}} \approx 0$ everywhere. Unstructured broadcast, not language.

Source code

v13_communication.py — Communication analysis
v13_communication_run.py — Runner