I built a cognitive architecture where the AI has actual needs that drift between sessions — not prompt engineering, actual state variables
Summary
Describes PHI // DRIFT, a cognitive architecture with seven homeostatic state variables that drift between sessions, memory scored by emotional salience and time decay, and a Jungian shadow module, built on a CPU-only mini tower and submitted as a preprint to SSRN.
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