Body-Grounded Perspective Formation and Conative Attunement in Artificial Agents

Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence [Submitted on 16 May 2026] Body-Grounded Perspective Formation and Conative Attunement in Artificial Agents Hongju Pae This paper proposes a minimal architecture for body-grounded perspective formation in artificial agents. Extending prior work, the model introduces an interoceptive viability signal, a Fisher-style metric over fused exteroceptive-interoceptive states, and a conative alignment mechanism linking bodily tendency to action readiness. In a reward-free gridworld, conation converts learned bodily tendency into stable body-directed behavior, while body-to-perspective routing allows bodily perturbations to leave a recoverable geometric residue in the perspective latent. This study shows how minimal structural conditions for artificial subjectivity can be operationalized in the phenomenological sense, through the embodied organization of how a world is given to an agent. Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2605.16728 [cs.AI]   (or arXiv:2605.16728v1 [cs.AI] for this version)   https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.16728 Focus to learn more Submission history From: Pae Hongju [view email] [v1] Sat, 16 May 2026 00:30:41 UTC (907 KB) Access Paper: HTML (experimental) view license Current browse context: cs.AI < prev   |   next > new | recent | 2026-05 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Export BibTeX Citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Demos Related Papers About arXivLabs Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)