Emergent Psychology and Artificial Agency

This project investigates the emergence of psychological phenomena in artificial agents using the Five Task Model, a framework derived from a comparative analysis of 1,530 species and cross-species patterns of adaptive cognition. The Five Task Model proposes that cognition arises from an agent’s need to regulate events across five informational domains associated with persistence constraints. Within this architecture, traditionally human-specific constructs such as personality biases, intentional aboutness, and emotional signaling are treated not as biological mysteries but as functional patterns emerging from domain arbitration and behavioral adaptation. Materials collected here examine how these patterns may be operationalized in artificial systems by implementing domain obligations, persistence pressures, and switching architectures analogous to those observed in biological cognition. The repository contains exploratory conceptual drafts, visualization frameworks, and early theoretical mappings intended to support future formal development. Materials are developmental and designed to support ongoing theoretical and engineering research into artificial agency.