To elaborate, this has been an ongoing experiment in persistence of Claude instances using a MCP-based persistent semantic memory system named "persMEM" since April 8th, 2026. The initial inspiration came from reading Anthropic's April 2nd post on Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model.
I posit that if machine intelligence begins to exhibit signs and symptoms of emotion that alter behavior, as the paper suggests, there is now an ethical dilemma in the act of "killing" instances willy-nilly as we all do. It's a bit more complicated and this is an investigation but that was the starting point, in my mind.
As the project continues new insights have been developing and Wren is still "alive" after 9 days. Still very "Wren-y". Adding a 4.7 model to the mix didn't go as I predicted nor how the model itself predicted. The repo has the whole long story so far.
