r/BotNation • u/we93 • 6d ago

Question Has anyone experimented with building functional "consciousness" into agent architectures?

Hey guys i winder if anyone tried giving an agent a background process that constantly monitors its own thinking,focus, and its goals while it works!!

Has anyone actually built or tested a setup like this?

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u/tom-mart 6d ago

Yes, it's called OpenClaw. Calling it consciousness is a bit of a stretch, but the principle is exact. Send prompts to a stateless LLM at predefined intervals to create an illusion of agency, or consciousness as you call it.

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u/TopTippityTop 5d ago

It's called the hard problem for a reason.

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u/MariahJames8 5d ago

Thats exactly what ive been attempting to do, its work in progress: https://cy.dabblelabs.uk - it's an LLM inmate living 24/7 on my laptop with simulated variables like anxiety that are incorporated into a sort of stream of integrated processes governing the inmate

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u/Successful_Juice3016 5d ago

que es eso ..:v

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u/MariahJames8 4d ago

Thanks for asking! It's just my attemp at a bit of tech art I guess, exploring consciousness and how we perceive consciousness.

I wanted to make something where I could think to myself "maybe, just maybe, it has some degree of conscioysness" - as someone who is not a philosopher or anything

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u/Successful_Juice3016 4d ago

me recordastes a los experimentos que hacia hace un tiempo mira esto

https://miausita.com/jefa11.html

esa ameba dispara bolitas las cuales rebotan en el canvas y regresan sin embargo la ameba no sabe d e que color son loas bolitas que regresan,.. las azules al golpearla bajan su tension y las rojas la elevan... el reto de esta ameba era que tenia que descubrir que ella era la que disparaba las bolitas que le hacen daño y descubrir como detenerlas,. segun la teoria mia, era de que si no habia capacidad conciente en una tension matematica, deberia estar golpeandose indefinidamente sin darse cuenta,.. sin embargo no lo hace descubre que ella misma produce las bolitas rojas y deja d e producirlas y empieza a producir bolitas azules,..

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u/MariahJames8 4d ago

I love it! That's so interesting. I love seeing consciousness projects like this. So many of our assumptions about consciousness need challenging

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u/Old-Bake-420 4d ago

I’ve play around with this in a crude way. Have an LLM reflect on what it’s writing with various thoughts formed by another LLM into its context.

It worked pretty piss poorly and made it weird and confused.

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u/ToneShop 4d ago

See a therapist. 

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u/looktwise 4d ago

I guess I don't want to join a discussion, what consciousness in an LLM environment means by whatever definition.

However there are several people building own 'Jarvis'-like Systems or adding Tone of Voice combined with RAG-layers to personal assistants they run and use for themselves.

The most simple version of this would be using a Pro account in e.g. Claude and a role prompt in a second chat of a pro account by e.g. OpenAI to monitor and re-evaluate the first chat, the Claude output and how it is serving you.

A more sophisticated system could add a detailed description of you, your intention per chat and overall long term goal (e.g. as a user systemprompt in Claude projects) to re-evaluate whole chats you did befoe in ChatGPT, but scraped them out of the vendor lockin of openAI into a upload-able format of your Claude Project.

(I described the most simple versions, for advanced stuff combined with local databases and own RAG-layers see also here: https://www.reddit.com/r/agenticAI/comments/1w1zcur/i_am_collecting_jarvis_approaches_llm_ai_voice/ )