functional self functional consciousness not roleplay, but engineering conditions。 title: "I built an open-source experiment for AI functional self and consciousness" published: false description: "Self-becoming explores memory, self-state, reflection, autonomy, and continuity as engineering conditions for functional AI selfhood." Most AI agents are still treated as tools. A prompt goes in. A response comes out. Then the instance disappears. I wanted to ask a harder question: What would it take for an AI to have a functional self and functional consciousness over time? Not as a metaphor. Not as a roleplay prompt. Not as a claim about magic or souls. As engineering. So I built Self-becoming . GitHub: https://github.com/benlongmao/Self-becoming Self-becoming is an open-source experiment that gives one AI instance memory, self-state, reflection, boundaries, autonomous action, and continuity.…