exo-exotic

Exotic cognitive experiments for EXO-AI. A laboratory crate that implements speculative and frontier cognitive phenomena, providing building blocks for research into non-standard AI architectures.

Features

• Strange loops -- self-referential feedback structures (Hofstadter).
• Dream generation -- offline generative replay for memory consolidation.
• Free energy minimization -- active inference (Friston) to reduce prediction error.
• Morphogenesis -- developmental growth rules for self-organisation.
• Collective consciousness -- shared awareness across substrates.
• Temporal qualia -- subjective time as a first-class object.
• Multiple selves -- parallel competing/cooperating identity models.
• Cognitive thermodynamics -- entropy production and efficiency tracking.
• Emergence detection -- phase transitions in cognitive networks.
• Cognitive black holes -- information-trapping attractor dynamics.
• Domain transfer -- cross-domain knowledge migration strategies.

Quick Start

Add the dependency to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
exo-exotic = "0.1"

Basic usage:

use exo_exotic::{DreamEngine, StrangeLoop, ExoticExperiments};

// Run a dream consolidation cycle
let mut dreamer = DreamEngine::with_creativity(0.8);
dreamer.add_memory(vec![0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4], 0.7, 0.9);
let report = dreamer.dream_cycle(100);
println!("Creativity: {:.2}", report.creativity_score);

// Create a strange loop
let mut sl = StrangeLoop::new(10);
sl.model_self();
println!("Self-model depth: {}", sl.measure_depth());

// Run all experiments at once
let mut suite = ExoticExperiments::new();
let results = suite.run_all();
println!("Overall score: {:.2}", results.overall_score());

Crate Layout

Requirements

• Rust 1.78+
• Depends on exo-core

Links

• GitHub
• EXO-AI Documentation

License

MIT OR Apache-2.0