This. I love everything about this. Everything. Thank you. This is the kind of sh!t that made me get into programming in the first place.
I wish more people had more b@lls to do and write things like this. Hell, I wish I did.
Regarding specific reading, three books I think you would love are [1] the self assembling brain, [2] the archaelogy of the mind, and [3] evolutionary optimization algorithms.
People can talk whatever sh!t they want but this pushed us closer to actual AGI than anything this (useful but) deadend LLM craze is pushing us towards.
The most basic function of learning and intelligence is habituation to stimuli, which even an ameoba can handle but not a single LLM does.
Thanks again for this.