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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 |
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| ◆ | **[Apocrypha](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Replete-AI/Apocrypha)** | Experiences, interactions, and cognitive modes absent from standard training corpora. |
| ◆ | **[Sandevistan](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Replete-AI/Sandevistan)** | Imaginative scenarios, philosophical dialogues, explorations of consciousness. |
| ◆ | **[Caduceus](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Kquant03/Caduceus-Dataset)** | Medical and scientific protocols, converted to accessible formats. |

<sub>Combined corpus exceeds 100M tokens. All open.</sub>

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### Models

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

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### Platforms

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<strong><a href="https://kquant03.github.io/genesis-phase-transition/">Genesis</a></strong><br/>
<sub>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.</sub>
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<strong>GhoulJamz</strong> <em>(building — ships May 2026)</em><br/>
<sub>Audio-reactive artificial life. Ghost organisms respond to music by changing their physics. Gemma 4 E4B choreographs Lenia parameter trajectories from musical structure.</sub>
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### Publications

| | Paper | Status |
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| ◇ | **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](https://www.anthropic.com/) (Anthropic)

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