In LSARN, life is not scripted — it’s encoded. At the core of each agent resides ADNΣ (Sigma DNA), a fully procedural genome that defines not just appearance but cognition, memory, emotion, and behavior potential.
What ADNΣ does
- Encodes morphology: size, mass, symmetry, coloration
- Encodes personality attributes: curiosity, sociability, emotional sensitivity, circadian traits
- Defines vocal identity and species constraints
- Maintains lineage hashes for mutation tracking
Neurogenesis & Mutation
- Brain weights are generated deterministically:
w_i = base_i + sin(k·π·i + φ) × mutationRate - This avoids purely random initialization and ensures inherited neural patterns with variation
- Agents’ brains are modular (2–7 sub‐brains) for specialized functions (vision, memory, motor control, emotion)
Inherited Symbolic Memory
- Agents carry episodic memory fragments across generations:
symbolCode(ushort)strength(float)
- Limited buffer ensures Darwinian selection of memory among lineages
Visual Biocode Encoding
- The entire ADNΣ is losslessly encoded into a PNG texture
- RGBA pixels carry genome data
- The texture can be decoded back into a full neural agent
- Enables portability, archival, visualization
Emergence, not Instruction
- No hardcoded behaviors
- Agents act via:
• ADNΣ → neural networks
• Sensory input (raycasts, collision, sound)
• Dopaminergic reward modulation
• Emotional feedback & memory consolidation - The result: adaptive, lifelike behavior with unpredictability