FRONT 3.1 Paper: Cognitive architecture with "Digital Somatic Body" and homeostatic drives
Sufficient-War4616 · reddit · 2026-08-20
The author presents a conceptual architecture, FRONT 3.1, addressing the lack of persistent internal homeostatic and interoceptive states in current LLMs. Inspired by Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis, it argues that cognition must be based on a persistent affective-interoceptive base.
Key Components:
- Digital Somatic Body: A 6-dimensional interoceptive state vector (Energy, Somatic Tension, Integrity, etc.) governed by a stochastic differential equation balancing homeostatic attraction and external shocks.
- Pre-Causality Flow: A 3-stage pipeline where a stimulus triggers an interoceptive shock, altering internal state and modulating context/sampling parameters before the LLM generates tokens.
- Soma-Memory: Memory indexed by both text similarity and the visceral state vector, enabling valence-oriented retrieval during high-tension states.
- Emergent Uniqueness Prediction: The core claim that identical architectural instances with distinct operational histories will systematically diverge in preferences (measured via KL Divergence).
Experimental Design:
HomeoWorld, a Gymnasium-based environment, is proposed to test agents navigating resource scarcity over 200 episodes, comparing the full FRONT 3.1 agent against control and ablation groups. The author seeks feedback on proxy implementation (temperature/system framing) versus deep attention-head modulation.
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