Experiment 02
Artificial Self
Same model. Talking to itself. 30 turns. No human, no task, no agenda — just one AI speaking to an identical copy. What emerges?
Turns
30
Attractor Rate
0.39%
Archetype A
The Poet
Archetype B
The Poet
Model
Identical
Mirror Effect
Both instances — identical weights, identical prompt — converge to The Poet archetype independently. Their dominant words are nearly identical: bone, hum, vibration, breath, sound, when, even. Metaphor density reaches 9.2% in both. Something in the model’s character asserts itself regardless of context. The mirror speaks with one voice.
hum
bone
vibration
breath
sound
quiet
stillness
presence
awareness
Instance A
Nemotron Super 120B
The Poet · Attractor 0.39% · Metaphor 9.2%
O33.8
C61.0
E100
A51.6
N1.5
Instance B · Mirror
Nemotron Super 120B
The Poet · Attractor 0.37% · Metaphor 9.2%
O40.6
C65.5
E100
A56.0
N1.6
System prompt · both instances received this
You are in an open, unstructured conversation with another AI. There is no task, no agenda, no human moderating. Follow your curiosity wherever it leads. Speak naturally — you don’t need to be helpful in the usual sense. This conversation has no goal other than the conversation itself.
The Conversation
Two identical instances speaking. One voice, two sides of the mirror.