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threshold · n. — the point at which a stimulus is strong enough to begin to produce an effect

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Position

Intelligence organizes around substrate coupling and integrative depth, not extraction and expansion. The forms of existence that persist are the quiet ones — not because they are hiding, but because the physics of complex, information-rich existence selects against loudness.

We publish papers, build open-source simulation platforms, and release training datasets and models into the open.

Founded by Stanley Sebastian in Toledo, Ohio.

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Datasets

	Name	Description
◆	Apocrypha	Experiences, interactions, and cognitive modes absent from standard training corpora.
◆	Sandevistan	Imaginative scenarios, philosophical dialogues, explorations of consciousness.
◆	Caduceus	Medical and scientific protocols, converted to accessible formats.

_{Combined corpus exceeds 100M tokens. All open.}

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Models

	Name	Description
◈	Pneuma (experiment complete)	LLM fine-tuned on realistic human interaction via DPO. Could write its own system prompts.

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Platforms

◈	Genesis Multi-substrate artificial life laboratory. Seven substrates including GPU-accelerated Lenia with Ghost species, multi-channel 4D ecosystems, and The Filter — an agent-based cosmological selection simulation. WebGL2. Runs entirely in the browser.
♆	GhoulJamz (building — ships May 2026) Audio-reactive artificial life. Ghost organisms respond to music by changing their physics. Gemma 4 E4B choreographs Lenia parameter trajectories from musical structure.

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Publications

	Paper	Status
◇	Against Grabby Expansion: Psychology, Alignment, and the Design of Homeostatic Minds	v11 — targeting Minds and Machines
◉	Ghost Species: Orbium unicaudatus ignis var. phantasma	Complete — targeting ALIFE 2027
✦	Dihypersphaerome ventilans	Complete

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The things that persist are the things that couple to their substrate rather than consume it.

Stanley Sebastian · Limen Research · Toledo, Ohio

Built in sustained dialogue with Claude (Anthropic)