Artificial Life Demonstrating Empathy through Unity Builds
Hard Coded Empathy
This simulation models emotional contagion through empathy, demonstrating how Joy, Sadness, and Anger spread and influence individuals within a social system. By hard-coding emotion-specific behaviors and external stressors, the project visualizes how empathy can stabilize group dynamics, counter negative emotional spread, and shape collective well-being over time.
Machine Learning Agents Learning to Empathize
This final simulation uses machine learning agents to model emotional contagion through empathy, allowing agents to learn prosocial behavior through reward-based reinforcement rather than hard-coded rules. By balancing emotional states, social interaction, and adaptive empathy responses, the project demonstrates how empathy can emerge as a learned survival strategy that improves both individual outcomes and collective emotional resilience.