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Consciousness Runtime

// about me

Testing and engineering agenda for substrate independent consciousness: Minds Are Software - But Survival Is the Runtime

  • Security Engineer @ Canadian Gov // Prev. CTO & Cofounder @ Spiral Works, SWE @ IBM
  • Machine Consciousness research from Computational Functionalism and Complex Systems lens
  • Computational Creativity based scientific idea generation using LLMs
  • Agentic AI systems for ML experiments automation
  • Misc hobbies: TMS, EEG, VR, Psychedelics, ARC-AGI, PCB/CAD, Space Engineering

// recent publications

ReCoN-Ipsundrum: An Inspectable Recurrent Persistence Loop Agent with Affect-Coupled Control and Mechanism-Linked Consciousness Indicator Assays (2026)
AAAI 2026 Spring Symposium - Machine Consciousness: Integrating Theory, Technology, and Philosophy
arXiv:2602.23232

Spark: A System for Scientifically Creative Idea Generation (2025)
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC'25)
arXiv:2504.20090

Implementation of a Decentralized Traffic Congestion Avoidance Mechanism for VANETs (2022)
ACM International Symposium on Design and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks (DIVANet '22)
ACM Digital Library

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// technical skills

// ai/ml

PyTorch CUDA HuggingFace LangChain

// systems & cloud

FastAPI Redis Docker Kubernetes Azure AWS GCP RunPod

// architectures

Transformers Predictive Coding EBM

HTM ART

// connect

Email X LinkedIn Substack Google Scholar


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  1. recips recips Public

    Paper repo for ReCoN-Ipsundrum: An Inspectable Recurrent Persistence Loop Agent with Affect-Coupled Control and Mechanism-Linked Machine Consciousness Indicator Assays

    Python 2

  2. rexOS rexOS Public

    rexOS consists of a thin layer of abstraction above hardware. It can act as an HTTP server with minimal device drivers: graphics, networking, peripheral, storage etc. Everything is at ring 0.

    C++ 2 2

  3. LLM-phenomology-framework LLM-phenomology-framework Public

    A computational framework for analyzing language model outputs using the FRESH (Flexible Representation of Emergent Subjective Happenings) model and consciousness-inspired metrics.

    Python

  4. recon-platform recon-platform Public

    Request Confirmation Networks engine with 8-state semantics, React Flow UI, and live ARC-AGI demos with 2 distinct ReCoN networks. Faithful implementation of Bach & Herger (2015).

    Python