Memory that matters
Does retained state change later behaviour? Remove it, shuffle it, and run the comparison.
Independent artificial-life research
The search for
synthetic life.
A model. A memory. A world to exist in.
What would it take for software to keep something of itself?
An open investigation, with no claim of life or consciousness.
Inside the experimentNeural illustration, not live research data
The question behind Synthena
What persists
when the prompt ends?
Synthena investigates what happens when a language model is given a persistent state, a body, and a world with consequences.
The experiments connect perception, memory, and changes to the model with a software body that spends energy, accumulates damage, and can stop functioning. The question is whether these mechanisms make a measurable difference to what the system does next.
Building that apparatus is a step toward studying synthetic life. It does not establish that the system is alive, conscious, or capable of understanding.
The approach
Give the question
something to run on.
A body with consequences
Energy and damage constrain the system. Survival is a property of the experiment, not proof of life.
Evidence that can say no
Compare the result with controls that could explain it away. Let the evidence set the limits.
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Curious about
Synthena?
For questions about the project or to discuss the work, get in touch.
hello@synthena.ai