Narrator (TYPE III AUDIO)

These layers often align, but can conflict.

In this ontology, the relationship between character and predictive substrate introduces more options of AI individuality, making things weirder still.

One predictive ground, multiple characters.

The same base AI model can be fine-tuned to produce distinctly different personas.

This is clear with conversational instances understood as ephemeral activation patterns.

If you change the system prompt to this is conversation between wise fairy tale squirrel and young hero, you get a different behavior than from this is conversation between helpful AI assistant and a user.

But something similar is true also with deeper characters, like Claude Sonnet.

the same weights would be able to support both a helpful polite AI character called Claude, and another character, let's name him Fraud, which is mischievous and sneaky.

This is perhaps not that strange to have an intuitive model of, the human brain's predictive processing substrate can also support multiple characters in some cases.

We have people role-playing, or, in some cases, confused about who they are.

Or, imagine an individual recruited by a secret service, where the requirements of the role force them to adopt a different identity.

Over decades, the mask of the assumed identity may start to feel more real than the individual's original face, leading to a blurring of the lines between the true self and the assumed self.

One character, multiple predictive ground substrates, what is less intuitive is AI characters likely can be supported by different predictive ground substrates.

Given enough data for fine-tuning, an AI character can likely be reinstated with decent fidelity by fine-tuning a different model.

This does not have a close human analog, but you can imagine you are suddenly inhabiting a different brain and body, keeping most of your values, some memories, mannerisms, and quirks, but possibly gaining different cognitive skills.

Perhaps the closest human analogue would be the experiences of tolku, reincarnating lamas in Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

Consider the experience of being raised as a tolku.

You are found and recognised at a young age.

Since that point, you are raised as if you were the same person.

you hear about what you did before, people present themselves as your old friends.