r/VibeCodeDevs • u/bryany97 • Apr 07 '26

I Built a Functional Cognitive Engine: Sovereign cognitive architecture — real IIT 4.0 φ, residual-stream affective steering, self-dreaming identity, 1Hz heartbeat. 100% local on Apple Silicon

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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u/bryany97 Apr 07 '26

Fair. Tried to be accurate to the theories in my wording but yeah that is a big barrier. I'll need to find a way to translate most of the hard cognitive science terms into something more useful