Thoriso Watson — Emergent Systems Research

Project Proteus

Each circle represents an autonomous node, where red is low energy and green is high energy.Nodes acquire energy from resource patches (A-L) and consume energy with time, connections, and movement. The connection patterns visible here are emergent — no node was programmed to form networks, relay energy, or occupy specific positions. These structures self-assembled utilizing evolutionary dynamics alone.Behavior is dictated by the six genes featured in the simulation HUD.

Vision

The proteus vision is to explore whether energy economics alone can produce self-organizing distributed intelligence.

Telemetry

The population follows a boom-bust cycles tied to energy depletion and regeneration Reproduction threshold (gene) is drifting downward — the population is evolving to reproduce earlier.