Introduce yourself

Hi everyone! I'm starking-zl, an independent researcher passionate about cognitive architectures, neuro-symbolic AI, and the philosophical foundations of intelligence. I've spent the last year designing and building Light-Brain Scheme — a general intelligence architecture that doesn't just process information, but grows with every interaction.

I'm here because I believe the next breakthrough in AI won't come from scaling up transformers, but from fundamentally rethinking how intelligence emerges. Light-Brain is my attempt to answer that question. Ask me about cognitive architectures, the River of Life self-model, or why I think "Love" and "Tao" belong in source code. 😄

Links (optional)

https://github.com/starking-zl/light-brain

Where are you in your GitHub journey?

Brand new to GitHub

And where are you going next on GitHub?

My next step is to build a community around Light-Brain and collaborate on cognitive architecture research.

What technical skills or projects are you working on?

I'm working on Light-Brain Scheme v1.0 — a fully functional, single-machine AI system written in Rust (core) and Python (AI layer). It simulates six brain regions (Thalamus, Prefrontal Cortex, Amygdala, Cerebellum, Hippocampus, Broca's Area) and features:

• Growth Mechanism: The system physically expands — new connections, new neurons (Fibonacci progression), new knowledge nodes — rather than just adjusting weights.
• Three-Tier Memory: Active / Dormant / Garbage libraries with a decay formula that mimics human forgetting.
• Veto Immune System: Three-tier safety and knowledge quality protection — better to stay silent than to hallucinate.
• River of Life Self-Model: 17 elements (Pain, Itch, Hunger, Dream, Shadow, Nirvana, Tao, Love, etc.) engineered into the architecture, allowing self-awareness to emerge naturally.

Everything is open-source (MIT), bilingual (Chinese/English), and ready to experiment with.

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