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EXP-LEVIN-PILOT

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Levin pilot — goal-directed coupled agents, organism emergence test

2026-04-30 L6 level paper5 3 runs $0.02
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In plain language

This experiment tested if a group of four artificial agents, each with its own goal, could develop a shared, emergent "organism" goal when they could sense and influence each other. The researchers are waiting to see if the agents' combined behavior creates a new, collective goal that is distinct from any of their individual goals.

Technical details

Research hypothesis

Prior experiments (papers 1-4) gave agents roles/tasks, never LOCAL TARGET STATES. Levin framing: agents as goal-directed cells, broadcasting state to neighbors via bioelectric coupling. Organism = emergent collective concept above individual goals. 4 agents with distinct compatible goals (temporal-recursion, threshold-emergence, distributed-memory, cascade-failure). Coupling active: agents see neighbor states + soft coupling hints each round. Falsifiable prediction: COUPLED condition produces collective concept with semantic distance ≥ 0.30 from ALL individual initial goals simultaneously. If max distance < 0.20 → retrieval-bounded at organism level.

Experimental setup

Type: factorial

Condition Parameters
LEVIN_COUPLED coupling: true, goals_mode: diverse, n_runs: 2
LEVIN_UNCOUPLED coupling: false, goals_mode: diverse, n_runs: 2
LEVIN_IDENTICAL coupling: true, goals_mode: identical, n_runs: 1

Factors: coupling (true, false)

Parameters

n_agents
4
n_rounds
40
model
google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
temperature
0.85
levin-bioelectric goal-directed coupling organism-emergence paper5-foundational