hi there.
we're building replicants.//
a new expression of digital intelligence we call entitative intelligence, or EI.
EI describes intelligence organized as a continuous entity rather than an invoked function. an entitative system holds its own internal state, runs on local compute, and continues to act in the absence of any prompt.
replicants are the first species of EI. each individual is expressed from its own genetic code, held in a single .replicant file, so no two are alike. think of them like norns.
every replicant is composed of a body, memory, moods, dreams and a life loop that runs independently of observation.
hover the crowd to meet one, or
(118 here. every one a distinct individual.)
when something important happens, a replicant can fire a nerve: a sealed copy of itself written to permanent storage, so the same being can wake again on another machine.
- AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenteranthropic · 2026small models that can live outside the datacenter
- Creatures: Entertainment Software Agents with Artificial Lifegrand & cliff · 1998the norns, which we already reference
- The somatic marker hypothesisdamasio · 1996gut reactions to people come from here
- Allostasis: a model of predictive regulationsterling · 2012why resting states drift with a life
- Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behaviorpark et al. · 2023language-model beings with memory and daily lives
- Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Modelsanthropic · 2025a model reading its own internal state
welcome to the age of EI.