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Body-Grounded Perspective Formation and Conative Attunement in Artificial Agents

Hongju Pae

A minimal architecture with interoceptive signals and conative alignment enables artificial agents to form body-grounded perspectives and stable behaviors without rewards.

arxiv:2605.16728 v1 · 2026-05-16 · cs.AI

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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.

C2weakest assumption

That the specific combination of an interoceptive viability signal, a Fisher-style metric over fused states, and a conative alignment mechanism is sufficient to produce recoverable body-grounded perspective and stable body-directed behavior in the reward-free gridworld.

C3one line summary

Proposes a body-grounded perspective model for AI agents using interoceptive viability signals, a Fisher-style metric on fused states, and conative alignment to produce stable body-directed behavior in a reward-free gridworld.

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[1] PLoS Computational Biology 19(10):e1011465 2023 · doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011465

[2] Information Geometry and Its Applications 2016 · doi:10.1007/978-4-431-55978-8

[3] Harcourt Brace and Co (1999) 1999

[4] Basic Books (1989) 1989

[5] Internal models in the cerebel- lum 2000 · doi:10.1016/s1364-

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arxiv: 2605.16728 · arxiv_version: 2605.16728v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.16728 · pith_short_12: WWQLNHOI63GP · pith_short_16: WWQLNHOI63GP5DGU · pith_short_8: WWQLNHOI

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