2026
Persona, Ego, Shadow, and Self: A Map of the Soul Framework for Proto-Emotional Homeostasis in AI
AAAI 2026technical
I present a compact, testable architecture that endows learning agents with continuous proto-emotional dynamics and interpretable modulators (Persona, Ego, Shadow, Self). The design grounds these modulators in a computational interpretation of Jung’s Map of the Soul, mapping each archetype to a diff