Aura: https://github.com/youngbryan97/aura
Aura is not a chatbot with personality prompts. It is a complete cognitive architecture — 60+ interconnected modules forming a unified consciousness stack that runs continuously, maintains internal state between conversations, and exhibits genuine self-modeling, prediction, and affective dynamics.
The system implements real algorithms from computational consciousness research, not metaphorical labels on arbitrary values. Key differentiators:
Genuine IIT 4.0: Computes actual integrated information (φ) via transition probability matrices, exhaustive bipartition search, and KL-divergence — the real mathematical formalism, not a proxy
Closed-loop affective steering: Substrate state modulates LLM inference at the residual stream level (not text injection), creating bidirectional causal coupling between internal state and language generation
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