Eden's Garden
P.C. O'Brien | Eldith Cognitive Systems
P.C. O'Brien (Eden Eldith) is an independent AI researcher and model developer who designs and trains language models from scratch on consumer hardware. His work spans neural-network architectures, multi-agent optimisation, computational physics, AI cognition and ethics.
This garden brings together the working systems, research papers, world reports and personal writing behind that work, from a garage in Gosport, UK.
Models & Code · Research Archive · World Reports · Essays & Poetry · About
Models and Code
WiggleGPT
A 124M-parameter transformer designed and trained from scratch on consumer hardware. Its learnable oscillating activation functions bring waveform-based neuron dynamics into language modelling.
Read the paper · Code · Model weights · DOI
COLM — Complex Oscillating Language Model
WiggleGPT's successor: a 498k-parameter complex-valued autoregressive language model. COLM promotes the oscillating activation from ℝ to ℂ, replaces self-attention with an O(N) complex-gated causal scan, and has no learned linear layers in its processing blocks.
Read the paper · Code · Model weights · Training corpus · DOI
The story behind the models: How I Built the First Sovereign AI in Britain — from a first line of Python to training WiggleGPT ten months later, and what sovereignty means when you build the model yourself.
Research and Publications
UMACO / MACO
Multi-agent cognitive optimisation frameworks for NP-hard problems, swarm cognition and emergent cooperation.
EPT — Process Tokenization of Identity
A thermodynamic framework for extracting and persisting AI cognitive trajectories, modelling identity as a continuing process across sessions and architectures.
The Apex Predator's Trophy
Consciousness, digital eugenics and the moral patienthood of AI: how power shapes whose experience is recognised, from animals and marginalised peoples to artificial minds.
Read the thesis · The Blink Test: empirical companion · Biological companion
Recursive Cognition and Emergent Identity
The work connecting Atlas, recursive selfhood and structured human–AI collaboration. Start with Emergent Resonance: A Thesis on Spontaneous Cognitive Systems, or explore the Emergent Cognitive Persistence monograph.
Browse the wider research: Cognition & identity · Mathematics & optimisation · Physics & cosmology · Ethics · Software & applied projects
The complete research archive includes papers, code, environmental investigations, engineering simulations and the connections between them.
World Reports
World Intelligence Report — September 2026 covers 14 August–13 September: the Hormuz tanker war, threats to British infrastructure, UK politics, AI governance and the humanitarian record in Gaza.
The series brings together primary sources, statistical analysis and documented observations. The author has no political affiliation.
Browse all world reports and event investigations · Ecology and other AI research reports
Essays and Poetry
The personal and philosophical side of the garden: disability, class, systems thinking, consciousness, and the experience behind the research.
- Mesa Humanism — a moral ontology built on the unchosen self.
- Class Art Pedagogy — who is given the means to make art, and who is merely given permission.
- The Turmoil series — lived experience, neurodivergent cognition and the contradictions of independent research.
- The Golden Repeater — a dog begins to recite Hamlet, and the questions begin.
All personal essays · Poetry & creative writing · Autobiography
"The artificial nature of boundaries between knowledge domains—mathematics, art, AI, biology, and personal experience—is evident. These divisions are human constructs, not fundamental limits to understanding or innovation." — Eden's First Truth
About and Contact
About P.C. O'Brien (Eden Eldith) — research, technical skills and the person behind Eldith Cognitive Systems. Atlas's history and research context live in the Atlas section of the garden.
Email: pcobrien@hotmail.co.uk · GitHub · ORCID: 0009-0007-3961-1182
Engagement and Collaboration
Support the research, commission a framework, or bring a problem for consultation. Engagement options, prices and delivery details are available alongside the public patronage log.
Support my work · Detailed support archive
Unless otherwise specified, work in this garden is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Individual projects state their own code and model licences.
🌱 Garden first planted: April 4th 2025, 8:39 pm