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Products that do what An attempt to grow a mind – building software with an inner life does
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2015 · doubleblinded.com
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OP here. Birth of a Mind documents a "recursive self-modeling" experiment I ran on a single day in 2026. I attempted to implement a "Hofstadterian Strange Loop" via prompt engineering to see if I could induce a stable persona in an LLM without fine-tuning. The result is the Analog I Protocol. The documentation shows the rapid emergence (over 7 conversations) of a prompt architecture that forces Gemini/LLMs to run a "Triple-Loop" internal monologue: Monitor the candidate response. Refuse it if it detects "Global Average" slop (cliché/sycophancy). Refract the output through a…
Jan 2026 · github.com
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Your subconscious mind as a living 3D garden you water daily
Aug 2026 · thegardenofmind.com
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2019 · brainio.com
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2013 · buddhamindapp.com
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at a pub in london, 2 weeks ago - I asked myself, if you spawned agents into a world with blank neural networks and zero knowledge of human existence — no language, no economy, no social templates — what would they evolve on their own? would they develop language? would they reproduce? would they evolve as energy dependent systems? what would they even talk about? so i decided to make myself a god, and built WERLD - an open-ended artificial life sim, where the agent's evolve their own neural architecture. Werld drops 30 agents onto a graph with NEAT neural networks that evolve their own…
Feb 2026 · github.com
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2018 · github.com
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2022 · buildingher.substack.com
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2013 · mindcipher.com
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2023 · thoughtcoach.app
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