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Rat Utopia — Uncertainty-Driven Agent-Based Model

This repository contains Julia code for simulating Calhoun's Universe-25 using two complementary approaches:

  • Game-matrix surrogate that reproduces the same macro patterns using a population-level engagement variable.
  • Agent-Based Model (ABM) built with Agents.jl, where each rat has sex, age, rank, engagement propensity, and survival dynamics driven by a time-varying uncertainty schedule.

The core hypothesis is that as social hierarchy becomes more 'visible' (lower uncertainty), engagement collapses, reducing reproduction and accelerating decline—producing the observed growth -> plateau -> extinction arc.


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