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I'd like a simulation of the birth and growth of civilisation where I could change parameters and see what the different results would be.

Parameters would be things like the probability distribution of various characteristics such as aggression, intelligence, passivity, individuality and so on.

There would also be environmental factors for the planet, the availability of various resources etc.

I feel that war is the inevitable way that groups work out who is boss until we sort out some sort of world government and I worry that we never will because our nature doesn't allow it.

I know that such a simulation would be useless because of not being based on any accepted model but it would still be interesting to try.




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