Patent Document ID: 20040181376
Application ID: 10767509
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer simulation method for modeling the response of one or more agents to real-world input data, comprising: (a) modeling an agent's behavioral expression in terms of a series of “scales” for behavioral expression within a given cultural environment in response to real-world input data, wherein the scales of behavioral expression progress in logical definition from more primitive behavioral states to more complex behavioral states within the given cultural environment, and wherein the agent's behavioral expression includes at least one expected agent behavioral response on one scale that is linked as an expected agent behavioral response on one other scale, whereby at least one example of a progression in agent behavioral responses across the scales can be monitored in the agent's behavioral expression; (b) running a computer simulation in which one or more agents having respectively modeled behavioral expressions are selected to interact with selected sources of real-world input data; (c) monitoring the interaction of the expected agent behavioral responses of the agent(s) in the computer simulation with the selected sources of real-world input data; and (d) displaying a simulation output in a visual form depicting the interaction of the expected agent behavioral responses of the agent(s) in the computer simulation with the selected sources of real-world input data.