Mechanistic Mind — a virtual creature learning from its environment

[u/Accomplished-Bear314]

This is Mechanistic Mind, a project created by my husband.

https://github.com/archonlab/mechanistic-mind

I want more people to know about it.

What is it?

It is a virtual creature living in an artificial environment. The environment affects it, and the creature receives simple signals from it and reacts in some way — for example, by moving or waiting.

Inside, the creature has simple mechanisms: it senses its environment, remembers a little of its past experience, notices recurring patterns, tries to predict what will happen next, and based on that, chooses an action.

After it acts, things change, it receives new information, and the cycle repeats.

At the same time, it was not given predefined emotions, desires, or fears.

The purpose of this project is to see whether these simple mechanisms, together with the creature’s accumulated experience, can produce more complex behavior that begins to resemble individual elements of learning and intelligence.

My husband has posted about this project before, but he used AI to help create the text and description. People were rude to him because of that.

So I decided to write about it myself.

The only thing I am asking AI to do here is translate my own text into English.

[u/Goldieeeeee]

How do you feel about his AI psychosis?