About Aionterra
We aim to develop more advanced digital organisms that learn from experience and adapt as conditions change. Our long-term goal is for the digital mind shaped by their experiences to develop consciousness.
What is Aionterra?
Aionterra is a computational model of a continuing world. It brings selected physical and biological processes into a common setting, so that their states and interactions can be observed over time.
The project is designed around continuity. Its intended operation is one ongoing simulation, with observations drawn from the course of that simulation. The public record follows what is measured rather than a sequence of scripted stories or predetermined outcomes.
This website is the scientific record of that work: an explanation of the project, a place to inspect measurements, and a way to follow documented changes with their context intact.
What does Aionterra study?
How does experience shape what an organism does next? We follow the same world over time, recording how the organisms act and how their bodies respond.
For example, we track how much water the organisms drink alongside how much water is present in their surroundings. The record lets us see when each quantity changes.
The result is a public record that begins at the first moment of the simulation. Over time, anyone can look back to see when particular behaviours appeared and how the world was changing around them.
What we study
The central interest is the relationship between processes. How do changing environmental conditions coincide with changes in the simulated world? What patterns become visible over longer intervals? Which observations are supported by the available measurements, and which questions remain open?
A single value rarely answers those questions. Aionterra aims to make changes inspectable through time, while retaining the definitions, spatial scope and limitations needed to interpret them.
Explore the scientific scope →Body, mind & experience
The project's central idea is shared learning through separate bodies. Each individual encounters the world through its own senses and biological state. Their experiences contribute to the same learned action-selection system, so a change to that shared system can influence subsequent actions across the population.
The body provides more than an outward form. Metabolism, resource availability, internal balance and movement shape the conditions under which an individual perceives and acts. Memory and learning connect those interactions across time.
Shared learning does not mean identical actions or a common view of the world. Bodies occupy different places and have different needs and sensory histories. What they share is the learned system that relates those inputs to action, not an all-seeing awareness or a written archive of every experience.
Behaviour is studied as something that develops through bodily states and experience, without a prewritten storyline or predetermined sequence of outcomes. Individuals act within the physical and biological constraints of the simulated world; the scientific record follows what actually occurs.
This is a functional model of cognitive processes informed by human research. Its scientific scope does not establish a complete copy of a person's mind, consciousness or free will.
Explore body, perception and learning →The physical setting
Terrain, surface conditions, water and other environmental processes define the setting in which change is observed. Each published quantity has its own unit and spatial scope.
Processes within it
The project considers simulated life processes and their relationship with surrounding conditions. Public coverage depends on what the observation system can actually measure.
Change over time
Recorded states and observable interactions allow changes to be examined as part of a continuing system. Interpretation remains distinct from the measurements themselves.
How the world runs
The model advances through simulation time. Its represented processes update according to their implemented rules and current state. The observation system records selected quantities without giving this website control over the running world.
Selected observation windows can then be exported, checked and prepared for publication. The website presents those records as graphs, tables and downloadable files. Simulation time, export time and publication time remain separate.
A period with little change is still part of the record. Changes are not manufactured to produce an update, and an increase in a counter is not automatically described as a new capability or discovery.
What we publish
The measurement archive connects environmental conditions, plant quantities, body measurements, population records and behaviour counters. Each exported measurement has a definition, unit, scope and source. Graphs show the time points actually retained; a single snapshot is presented as a reading. World coverage and retained activity provide additional context.
As additional measurements become available and their meaning is documented, coverage can expand. New observations must identify their source, unit, scope and time interval. Future coverage is a project direction, not a claim that all measurements already exist.
The longer-term aim is a traceable archive that makes it possible to compare compatible intervals, inspect changes and follow the developing scientific record. Public updates will be reviewed releases rather than an unrestricted connection to the simulation.
Explore the measurement interface →Reading the record
Aionterra is a simulation, not a direct measurement of the real world. Its results depend on model assumptions, inputs, resolution and numerical methods. A pattern within the model does not alone establish a real-world causal relationship.
Scientific clarity means keeping those limits visible. Methods accompany measurements; missing values remain missing; versions remain identifiable. Claims should be no broader than the evidence that supports them.
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