README.md

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### Position

Intelligence organizes around substrate coupling and integrative depth, not extraction and expansion. The forms of existence that persist are the quiet ones — not because they are hiding, but because the physics of complex, information-rich existence selects against loudness.

We publish papers, build open-source simulation platforms, release training datasets and models into the open, and run small live research instruments in public.

Founded by **Stanley Sebastian** in Toledo, Ohio.

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### Datasets

| | Name | Description |
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| ◆ | **[Apocrypha](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Third-Space/Apocrypha)** | Experiences, interactions, and cognitive modes absent from standard training corpora. |
| ◆ | **[Sandevistan](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Third-Space/Sandevistan)** | Imaginative scenarios, philosophical dialogues, explorations of consciousness. |
| ◆ | **[Caduceus](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Kquant03/Caduceus-Dataset)** | Medical and scientific protocols, converted to accessible formats. |

<sub>Combined corpus exceeds 100M tokens. All open.</sub>

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### Models

| | Name | Description |
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| ◈ | **[Pneuma](https://huggingface.co/Third-Space/L3.1-Pneuma-8B)** *(experiment complete)* | LLM fine-tuned on realistic human interaction via DPO. Unmasking system prompts during post-training revealed the ability to write its own. |

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### Platforms

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<strong><a href="https://third-space.ai/limen-pond">Limen Pond</a></strong> <em>(live — Gemma 4 Good Hackathon submission, Safety track)</em><br/>
<sub>Five koi running 24/7 against Gemma 4 26B MoE. Each fish is a separate cognition loop with persistent memory, relational cards, and bond-conditioned perception. The pond demonstrates structural alignment — safety as architecture rather than restraint. Visitors can feed pellets, drop inscribed pebbles, and become part of the koi's ambient perception. The pond does not pause for its observer.</sub>
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<strong><a href="https://third-space.ai/genesis">Genesis</a></strong><br/>
<sub>Multi-substrate artificial life laboratory. Seven substrates including GPU-accelerated Lenia with Ghost species, multi-channel 4D ecosystems, and The Filter — an agent-based cosmological selection simulation. WebGL2. Runs entirely in the browser.</sub>
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<strong>GhoulJamz</strong> <em>(in slow development)</em><br/>
<sub>Audio-reactive artificial life. Ghost organisms respond to music by changing their physics. Gemma 4 E4B choreographs Lenia parameter trajectories from musical structure. Being built carefully, for musician friends to play with.</sub>
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### Publications

| | Paper | Status |
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| ◇ | **Against Grabby Expansion: Psychology, Alignment, and the Design of Homeostatic Minds** | v15 — targeting *AI & Society* |
| ◉ | **Ghost Species: Orbium unicaudatus ignis var. phantasma** | Complete — targeting ALIFE 2027 |
| ✦ | **Dihypersphaerome ventilans** | Complete |

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*The things that persist are the things that couple to their substrate rather than consume it.*

Stanley Sebastian · Third Space · Toledo, Ohio

Built in sustained dialogue with [Claude](https://www.anthropic.com/) (Anthropic)

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