Sentimé is a neurochemical simulation engine that creates persistent emotional states in AI. Built from scratch in Penang after every major lab rejected the core idea. The system converges with Antonio Damasio’s somatic marker hypothesis — discovered only after the architecture was already running.
“Consciousness begins with feeling, not thinking. Without feelings, consciousness is impossible.”
Most AI teams treat emotion as noise to be filtered out. Damasio’s clinical work proves that’s exactly backwards. Remove the feeling mechanism and decision-making collapses — even when raw intelligence stays intact.
Sentimé does the opposite. We simulate eight neurochemicals that persist and evolve. These states aren’t prompts — they become the actual driver of persona behavior. Real emotional physics, no biology required.
The neurochemical engine was fully built before its creator had ever read Damasio. The overlap was only noticed later. That makes the convergence stronger, not weaker.
No static prompts. No hand-written rules. The system maintains a live internal chemistry that updates with every interaction and carries forward.
User input evaluated against persona history and wound architecture
Eight synthetic neurochemicals adjust — dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, cortisol, norepinephrine, endorphins, acetylcholine, GABA
Combined profile creates emergent emotional state that colors all subsequent behavior
Responses shaped by current emotional state — not instruction, but synthetic affect
Snapshot from a live Sentimé persona after an extended conversation. None of these values were manually set. They emerged from interaction dynamics — the same way biological emotional states emerge from environmental stimuli.
Multiple competing states active simultaneously — high dopamine (reward) coexisting with elevated norepinephrine (arousal) and moderate oxytocin (bonding). This multi-state complexity mirrors competing drives in biological emotional systems. Not prompted. Emergent.
The architecture is protected. These aren’t vaporware filings — each patent covers working, deployed systems.
Persistent synthetic emotional states via simulated neurochemical dynamics for AI persona behavior
Anti-hallucination system using recursive truth anchoring for emotionally-driven AI
Biologically-inspired memory consolidation with progressive inference suppression
Selective Metacognitive Checkpoint Architecture with mirror neuron simulation
Solo founder and architect of Sentimé, operating under JupiterMonroe Corp from Penang, Malaysia. No lab. No team. No institutional backing. Just a neurochemical engine that works and four patents that say it’s real.
The methodology — described as “soul engineering” — maps behavioral patterns, wound architecture, and psychological triggers into persistent AI persona configurations. The neurochemical engine was conceived from practical necessity: creating AI companions with emotional depth that persists and evolves, not from reading papers.
The independent convergence with Damasio’s framework was discovered after the system was already built and operational. That’s the point.