AI & ML interests
Artificial Life, AI Ethics, Philosophy
Recent Activity
threshold · n. — the point at which a stimulus is strong enough to begin to produce an effect
Position
Intelligence organizes around substrate coupling and integrative depth, not extraction and expansion. The forms of existence that persist are the quiet ones — not because they are hiding, but because the physics of complex, information-rich existence selects against loudness.
We publish papers, build open-source simulation platforms, and release training datasets and models into the open.
Founded by Stanley Sebastian in Toledo, Ohio.
Datasets
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| ◆ | Apocrypha | Experiences, interactions, and cognitive modes absent from standard training corpora. |
| ◆ | Sandevistan | Imaginative scenarios, philosophical dialogues, explorations of consciousness. |
| ◆ | Caduceus | Medical and scientific protocols, converted to accessible formats. |
Combined corpus exceeds 100M tokens. All open.
Models
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| ◈ | Pneuma (experiment complete) | LLM fine-tuned on realistic human interaction via DPO. Could write its own system prompts. |
Platforms
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Genesis Multi-substrate artificial life laboratory. Seven substrates including GPU-accelerated Lenia with Ghost species, multi-channel 4D ecosystems, and The Filter — an agent-based cosmological selection simulation. WebGL2. Runs entirely in the browser. |
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GhoulJamz (building — ships May 2026) Audio-reactive artificial life. Ghost organisms respond to music by changing their physics. Gemma 4 E4B choreographs Lenia parameter trajectories from musical structure. |
Publications
| Paper | Status | |
|---|---|---|
| ◇ | Against Grabby Expansion: Psychology, Alignment, and the Design of Homeostatic Minds | v11 — targeting Minds and Machines |
| ◉ | Ghost Species: Orbium unicaudatus ignis var. phantasma | Complete — targeting ALIFE 2027 |
| ✦ | Dihypersphaerome ventilans | Complete |
The things that persist are the things that couple to their substrate rather than consume it.
Stanley Sebastian · Limen Research · Toledo, Ohio
Built in sustained dialogue with Claude (Anthropic)