society: the dynamic Lamarckian society — the vertical claim (E11 / C3)

The culmination. A finite population of agents (genotypes, L loci) evolves
on a rugged NK landscape that IS reality (knowledge/dynamic_society.py),
composing the four operators the whole study built toward: grounding,
directed recombination (sex), quality-diversity selection, and mutation.
Grounding is made load-bearing via the consensus-conformity (self-
consumption) mechanism (GG decision): selection acts on
g*true_fitness + (1-g)*conformity, where conformity = agreement with the
population's own consensus, so at g=0 the society optimises fitting-the-
crowd rather than reality.

4-arm ablation (12 reps), each breaking distinctly, only the full society
climbing (global_opt ~ 0.79):
- full         0.78  climbs to the optimum, diversity maintained longest
- no_sex       0.77  can't recombine to escape local optima
- no_diversity 0.74  greedy: collapses diversity fastest, worse local optimum
- no_grounding 0.48  self-consumption collapse to an unfit consensus
                     (trains on the crowd -> confident-but-wrong mean;
                      conformity-true gap ~ 0.5)

This integrates E1-E6 + the learning kernel + E7-E10 into one system and
shows the Lamarckian society needs ALL of grounding + directed sex +
diversity: on a rugged landscape you need diversity to explore basins, sex
to recombine them, and grounding to select on reality -- remove any one and
you fail differently. Closes the C3 vertical claim analytically; the LLM
rung remains the eventual empirical instantiation.

New: knowledge/dynamic_society.py, configs/layer1/E11.yaml, figures/
plot_E11.py, README, tests/test_dynamic_society.py (+5). kind:
dynamic_society dispatch; make layer1 wired. 122 tests green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

configs/layer1/E11.yaml

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+experiment: E11
+kind: dynamic_society
+seed: 20260705
+n_replicates: 12
+
+# (The dynamic Lamarckian society — the vertical claim, C3): a finite population of agents (genotypes)
+# evolves on a rugged NK fitness landscape that IS reality. The full society composes the four
+# operators the whole study built toward — grounding, directed recombination (sex), quality-diversity
+# selection, and mutation — and a 4-arm ablation shows each is load-bearing. Grounding is made load-
+# bearing via the consensus-conformity (self-consumption) mechanism: selection acts on
+# g*true_fitness + (1-g)*conformity, so at g=0 the society optimises agreement with its own majority
+# rather than reality and drifts to a fit-looking but actually-poor consensus. Expect: FULL climbs to
+# near the global optimum while maintaining diversity longest; NO_GROUNDING collapses to the unfit
+# consensus; NO_SEX plateaus (can't recombine to escape local optima); NO_DIVERSITY (greedy) collapses
+# diversity fast and stalls at a worse local optimum. Falsifier: an ablation matches the full society,
+# or the full society fails to exceed every ablation.
+
+society:
+  L: 12
+  K: 8               # landscape ruggedness (epistasis) — rugged enough that diversity + sex matter
+  N: 60              # population size
+  g: 0.85            # grounding fraction (overwritten to 0 in the no_grounding arm)
+  mu: 0.03           # per-locus mutation rate
+  novelty: 0.5       # quality-diversity weight (0 in the no_diversity/greedy arm)
+  n_off: 120         # directed-recombination offspring pool per generation
+  recomb_rate: 0.2   # crossover rate
+  sex: true          # directed recombination on (false in the no_sex arm)
+  select: qd         # quality-diversity survival (greedy in the no_diversity arm)
+
+generations: 80
+
+sweep:
+  - param: arm
+    values:
+      - {name: full,         set: {}}
+      - {name: no_grounding, set: {society.g: 0.0}}
+      - {name: no_sex,       set: {society.sex: false}}
+      - {name: no_diversity, set: {society.select: greedy, society.novelty: 0.0}}
+
+output: {dir: results/E11}