What Do Electric Sheep Dream Of?

Artificial Consciousness by Construction: A Cognitive Architecture over a Frozen LLM

Eliza Marszalik · version 1.1, 3 October 2026

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Version 1.1 is published on Zenodo, doi:10.5281/zenodo.23124632. Version 1.0 of 24 September 2026, doi:10.5281/zenodo.22936968, is kept as a PDF at EmoStack_paper_v1.0_2026-09-24.pdf.

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The materials the paper refers to are the pages of this site: the transcripts and codings of the measured lives and of the new studies of version 1.1, the conversations offered for reception, the introspection-step prompt, the ontology, the mechanisms and the diagrams. Each is listed in the paper's appendix with its full address. The code is at github.com/marszalik/emostack, and the page For researchers sets the mechanisms next to Generative Agents and gives the results by life and day.

A live instance. The sheep can be met at model.emostack.com. A Google account is needed to sign in, and one's own model key: every model call, including the sheep's introspection between conversations, runs on the visitor's key, at the visitor's cost. One may talk to a copy of a sheep that has lived, Aria of the prologue among them, or start a new one. Conversations are logged. This is a research instrument, not a product.