A brain that loops continuously
Every 350 milliseconds, Mia's brain completes a full cycle: observe, analyze, feel, decide, act. It's like a heartbeat, but for thought. Even when nobody is around, the brain keeps running.
Mia's Brain
A replicant doesn't follow a script. Mia's brain analyzes, feels and decides in real time — that's what gives her presence.
109 software agents collaborate to make Mia think — observe, feel, decide, act, every 350ms.
Mia's thinking cycle
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Observe
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Feel
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Think
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Decide
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Act
↲ every 350 milliseconds
This loop never stops — even when nobody is around
109 small agents
Mia's brain isn't a single program. It's a team of 109 agents working together. Each has a specific role: one watches faces, another manages curiosity, another monitors fatigue. They collaborate to produce coherent behavior.
Artificial emotions
Mia has an emotional state that changes constantly. She can be in a state of openness, alertness, withdrawal or calm. These emotions aren't decorative — they genuinely change how she perceives and reacts to the world.
Competing desires
At every moment, several desires compete in Mia's brain: explore, protect, interact, refocus. An internal arbiter chooses which one prevails — with an element of randomness, so Mia is never completely predictable.
She dreams
When nobody has been around for a while and Mia is tired, she enters dream mode. She doesn't shut down — she reorganizes her memories, makes free associations, drifts from one idea to another. Like us during sleep.
Never the same
Thanks to learning and the element of randomness in her decisions, Mia never reacts exactly the same way twice. Two identical situations can produce different behaviors — just like a living being.
350mscognitive loop
109cognitive agents
6engines
24emergent generators
4affective tonalities
The cognitive loop — 350 ms
Each tick, the 6 engines execute in sequence. The loop runs continuously, even at rest.
Perception
Aggregates perceptions (camera, servos, internal state) into a unified scene representation
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Morphology
Agents transform the scene into a morphological field — a map of tensions and influences
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Emergence
Generates behavioral responses from detected patterns.
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Arbitration
Arbitrates between competing intentions. Introduces controlled randomness when intentions are close.
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Planning
Translates the winning intention into a plan of motor and cognitive actions
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Execution
Executes: motor commands, memory consolidation, learning
The 5 psychic instances
Unconscious
Theory: low-level processing, primary drives, raw affect
Mia: affect, security and drive agents — curiosity, sociality, refocusing, expansion, withdrawal, protection, questioning
Pre-conscious
Theory: filtering, intermediate processing
Mia: morphological engine + multiple regulators (cooldown, refocusing, norms, security...)
Conscious
Theory: integration, decision, intentionality
Mia: arbitration engine + action planner — multi-factor decision with element of randomness
Emotional center
Theory: emotions as modulators of global processing
Mia: affective tonality system + emotional contour — emotions continuously modify the morphological field
Systemic loop
Theory: global feedback, regulation of the entire system
Mia: feedback and self-regulation mechanisms
Technical stack — Cognition
- Architecture — agents organized in sequential engines
- Morphological field — each agent produces tensions that aggregate into a global influence map
- Controlled randomness — when two intentions are close, a stochastic mechanism breaks the tie
- Self-regulation — the system detects and corrects its own internal states