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2026-04-21 14:09
Do Agents Dream of Electric Sheep? On Soul and Dreaming
Before we begin
Let’s start with two questions.
First, can an agent have a soul?
My answer is yes. Not a soul in the biological sense, of course, but something closer to a defined personality and behavioral core. In any case, recent agents do have a soul. Variations of the idea had been floating around for a while, but OpenClaw helped popularize it, and more recently SoulSpec emerged ...