Biologically-grounded neural architecture that produces emotion, motivation, and pathology from the same mechanisms. No behavior trees, no emotion labels, no scripted responses. Clinical patterns emerge because the neurochemistry is real. We didn't program them in.
Multi-channel neurochemical signaling with biological timescales. Modular brain systems process perception, motivation, memory, and action selection through continuous signal dynamics. The same architecture that produces healthy development also produces clinical pathology when the signaling environment goes wrong. Learned helplessness, social withdrawal, dissociation. None of it is instructed.
Learned helplessness, anxious attachment, protest-despair sequences, dissociation. All from the same neurochemical dynamics that produce curiosity, bonding, and play. Nothing in the code is labeled "pathological."
Nothing is pre-programmed. Associations form from experience. Early experience shapes permanent behavioral tendencies through developmental windows, and critical period damage compounds the way it does in real development.
Every action has a neurochemical cause. Motivation drives exploration, stress suppresses it, social reward shapes preferences. No behavior trees, no state machines. Complexity comes from the signal dynamics.
Population-scale soldier cognitive degradation under operational stress. Each agent runs 21 neurochemical brain modules at 10 ticks per second: stress hormones, arousal, threat assessment, norepinephrine with resilience reserves, defence columns, executive regulation gated by biological maturation. A conscript's prefrontal cortex differs from a veteran's because it follows a developmental curve. There's no difficulty slider.
Predicts friendly fire risk windows, judgment loss timelines, and unit rotation timing. Risk model calibrated against declassified fratricide data. During testing, the architecture produced dynamics matching published PTSD profiles on its own. Nobody programmed that in.
Runs on any laptop. No cloud, no GPU, no foreign dependencies.
Develops language from scratch through caregiver interaction. Starts with babbling and felt states, builds toward meaningful speech through approval and emotional grounding. Neglect produces withdrawal. Inconsistent caregiving produces anxious attachment. Attentive caregiving produces secure bonding. Same architecture, three different outcomes, no special cases in the code.
Autonomous cat hunting prey. Stalk, chase, and pounce decisions driven entirely by neurochemical dynamics. Reward anticipation builds during approach, stress modulates risk assessment, failed hunts shift motivational baselines and produce emergent strategy adaptation. No behavior trees, no state machines.
Select a scenario to see how emotional states emerge. Each scenario sets raw neurochemical values. The emotion label isn't assigned, it's computed from signal distances. Calm, curiosity, panic, loneliness all come from the same architecture with different chemistry.