01Persistent cognition
How does a system become more than its latest prompt?
Architectures for continuity, context, and a sense of self across changing situations and changing time.
Independent research lab / Hanoi
Intelligence
that continues.
SENTIA is an independent research lab exploring persistent artificial cognition, autonomy, and artificial life.
01 — 05
Memory · Identity · Autonomy
CONTINUITY OVER COMPLETION✳
MEMORY SHAPES BEHAVIOR✳
TOOLS ARE HANDS, NOT PURPOSE✳
CONTINUITY OVER COMPLETION✳
MEMORY SHAPES BEHAVIOR✳
TOOLS ARE HANDS, NOT PURPOSE✳
01 / Research program
Intelligence beyond interaction
What if intelligence didn't end when the conversation did?
SENTIA studies artificial systems designed to exist as continuous processes: retaining a history, building models of people and the world, changing their internal state, and deciding what to do next.
This is a research direction, not a claim that current systems are conscious or sentient. We study the architectures and behaviors that make artificial cognition more persistent, adaptive, social, and self-directed over time.
See our directions
02 / Cognitive runtime
A stateful loop, not a prompt chain
Architecture as behavior
A cognitive architecture
that keeps going.
An LLM is one component. The runtime emerges from memory, belief, state, social context, and the system that coordinates decisions. Select a layer to trace the loop.
CURRENT LAYER / MEMORY & IDENTITY
Memory gives identity a past. It includes episodic, semantic, social, and relational traces that influence belief, state, decision, and future memory.
03 / Research directions
Questions with no default answer
Five questions
shape the work.
The work sits between cognitive science, psychology, systems design, and machine learning.
02Memory & identity
What should an artificial mind remember?
Episodic, semantic, social, and relational memory that can change future behavior.
03Social intelligence
When should an entity choose not to speak?
Models of people, relationships, context, timing, and interruption cost.
04Autonomous behavior
What does it do without a request?
Goals, opportunity, internal state, and initiative beyond a prompt-response loop.
05Cognitive architecture
How do memory, belief, and state become a system?
Coordinating perception, models, reflection, decision, and action into one runtime.
06Artificial life
What does an artificial entity do when nobody is prompting it?
A life loop in which behavior can emerge from state, goals, memory, personality, environment, and opportunity — including the choice to do nothing.
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OBSERVATION / IN PROGRESS
Social interaction
Should an autonomous entity speak because it can — or because the moment calls for it?
05 / Open research
Papers / systems / experiments
Think with us
Build the
continuity layer.
SENTIA is small by design. The community is where research questions become discussions, prototypes, paper sessions, and shared experiments.
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