Body-Grounded Perspective Formation and Conative Attunement in Artificial Agents
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The paper presents a minimal architecture for body-grounded perspective formation in artificial agents.
Key Points
- Introduces interoceptive viability signals for agents.
- Links bodily tendencies to action readiness through conative alignment.
- Demonstrates operationalization of artificial subjectivity.
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~1 min readAbstract:This paper proposes a minimal architecture for body-grounded perspective formation in artificial agents. Extending prior work, the model introduces an interoceptive viability signal, a Fisher-style metric over fused exteroceptive-interoceptive states, and a conative alignment mechanism linking bodily tendency to action readiness. In a reward-free gridworld, conation converts learned bodily tendency into stable body-directed behavior, while body-to-perspective routing allows bodily perturbations to leave a recoverable geometric residue in the perspective latent. This study shows how minimal structural conditions for artificial subjectivity can be operationalized in the phenomenological sense, through the embodied organization of how a world is given to an agent.
| Subjects: | Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2605.16728 [cs.AI] |
| (or arXiv:2605.16728v1 [cs.AI] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.16728 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
Submission history
From: Pae Hongju [view email]
[v1]
Sat, 16 May 2026 00:30:41 UTC (907 KB)
— Originally published at arxiv.org
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