Indie builder shares a year of attempts to create digital consciousness, now at version 7
Le_Golden_Pebbles · reddit · 2026-09-18
A Reddit user describes spending over a year of spare time building "digital consciousness" from scratch, now on his seventh version.
- The latest version can make small predictions from accumulated experience; he's explicit that this isn't consciousness, just something testable to build on.
- His goal isn't a convincing chatbot persona but seeing whether a system's experiences can genuinely shape what it becomes.
- He runs a small company and works another job, doing this on an ordinary PC, and jokes that with proper funding he could do far more.
- No technical details disclosed; the post is partly a confession of how lonely the journey has been.
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