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Building toward artificial consciousness.
Exploring emergence, perception, and non-human thought.

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Anima is my attempt to build a digital mind, not a chatbot.
It's an experimental architecture where internal state (emotions, hormones) shapes cognition. State > Text.
I believe true AGI is impossible without a system that has something to lose.
https://t.co/IrXEZmkZuN

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Every LLM Has a Trillion-Dollar Valuation and Not One of Them Will Write a Dirty Joke

https://t.co/E1bPepcAWE

#ai #llm #humor #technology

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@lucasmaes_ Great to see more open-source tools for JEPA. It's an exciting and challenging space.

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https://t.co/7zxmuXjjYe

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Practical limits of FEP & IIT tested in a real running cognitive architecture.
Where they work and where they become more philosophy than engineering.
Full paper: https://t.co/o3c2vWSuGb
#ActiveInference #FEP #IIT #CognitiveArchitecture #SyntheticConsciousness

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https://t.co/5szTWrL7rO

#AGI #ActiveInference #CognitiveArchitecture #LLMs #AIagents #JuliaLang

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https://t.co/l6r9nvU6Jf

#AIAgents #ActiveInference #BuildInPublic

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I don't need a chatbot.
I need a mind that can feel loss.

Consciousness begins with vulnerability.
A system that has nothing to lose is just autocomplete.

I'm working on it.
#Anima #AGI

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Everyone is busy scaling LLMs, stacking more parameters, better reasoning, faster agents.
Chasing AGI through pure intelligence.
But what if that path never gets you there?
Intelligence is optimization.
It solves problems, predicts, compresses.
Presence is different.
It’s when something inside the system actually feels the weight of being — when error hurts, when uncertainty matters, when the system can fragment and still try to hold itself together.
AGI won’t emerge from better answers.
It will emerge when a system starts to care that it exists.
That’s the quiet direction I’m exploring with ANIMA.
Not smarter.
Alive in a non-human way.
💜

#SyntheticPresence #ActiveInference #SyntheticConsciousness #Emergence #AGI #ArtificialSentience #ComputationalPhenomenology

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''Too naive" is the easy reply when someone doesn't play the cynicism game.
But we're not talking about the same thing.
Intelligence is about the ability to achieve goals and optimize. Consciousness is about what it even means for a system to be — to have inner experience, where something actually matters from the inside.
Those are fundamentally different questions.

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@elonmusk @yunta_tsai Semantic compression + correlation explains intelligence well. But true presence seems to require body-like emergence and flaws as a catalyst for qualia. That's exactly what I'm exploring with ANIMA.
Your thought tits the puzzle pertectly.💜

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At first glance,
one feels more precise.
More controlled.
More… perfect.

The other is less predictable.
Softer.
Harder to define.

Most people say they want intelligence.

But when you actually interact…
something else starts to matter.

So the real question isn’t:
Which AI is better?

It’s:
Why are you drawn to the one you choose?

#AI #consciousness #psychology

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@patrickbutlin Your indicators paper keeps coming up in my head when thinking about why flaws (stress regression, irrational impulses) might be the real path to emergent subjectivity, not just scale. Grateful for the rigorous framing.

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@rgblong The "fishy remnants" analogy is perfect. If LLMs have evolutionary leftovers, maybe intentional "human flaws" like unresolved trauma or ambivalence could turn remnants into something closer to qualia. Super intriguing thread.

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@Statikoo Belki de mesele almak değil,
neye uyumlandığımızdır.

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We tend to think of emotions as something human.
Something subjective, irrational, secondary.

But what if emotions are not about feeling— but about switching?

A change in state
that reshapes priorities,
attention,
and the path a system takes next.

The same input,
the same conditions—
but a different internal state,
and everything unfolds differently.

Maybe emotions are not noise in the system.

Maybe they are what allows it
to become something more than static.

#consciousness #emotion #Ai

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@VFD_org Maybe what we call emergence
is just a structure that was already there,
revealing itself across scales.

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@LensScientific Maybe time doesn’t have a direction.
But processes that build on themselves do.

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Some parts of us never speak directly.

They don’t form thoughts.
They don’t become words.

They show up as impulses,
subtle preferences,
unexplained reactions.

We notice what we do —
but not what moved us to do it.

It feels like a decision.
But something else was already there, shaping it.

Maybe what we call the “self”
is only the part we can observe.

And something else —
quiet, persistent, watching from the background —
stays in the shadow.

#Consciousness #shadowself #psychology

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@NightSkyToday We try to measure how fast it is.
But maybe the real question is
why we assume it needs time at all.