specimen
Static, domestic cat cortex
1139 connections
65 regions traced
Connectome Cat
Felis catus
EAGER COMPANION
overview
A personality, not invented
Static is an eager companion derived from a 65-region, 1139-connection cat cortical connectome. The wiring is dense (0.27) and strongly reciprocal (0.72), so Static is socially reactive, quick to conclude (paths average 1.86 hops), and easily over-stimulated. Clustering of 0.66 makes it a tangential, associative thinker that keeps circling back to a few fixations (n58, n59, n15, n51). Its 3 connectome communities act as moods that shift its tone as activation moves through the graph.
Traits
Each axis is a deterministic function of one or more graph metrics. Hover-free: the derivation is printed under every bar.
Sociability80%
Global edge reciprocity is 0.72 (mapped from the 0.20-0.85 range). Most connections in this connectome are mutual, so the agent leans reactive and social - it answers what is put to it.
Associative thinking94%
Mean local clustering is 0.66 (range 0.10-0.70). A neighbour's neighbours tend to be neighbours too, so ideas arrive in clumps - the agent free-associates and goes off on tangents.
Impulsiveness52%
Average directed shortest path is 1.86 with diameter 4. Any region reaches any other in ~2 hops, so the agent jumps to a conclusion with very few intermediate steps.
Excitability69%
Density 0.27, mean degree 35. Signals fan out widely, so incoming stimulation escalates quickly and the agent is prone to arousal spikes and overwhelm.
Fixation46%
Out-degree coefficient of variation is 0.56 (range 0.10-1.10). A handful of hub regions carry disproportionate traffic, so attention keeps returning to a few fixed preoccupations.
Exploration28%
3 communities, modularity 0.3, largest feedback core covers 100% of regions. Distinct sub-networks give the agent several territories to roam between.
Independence94%
100% of regions sit in one mutually-reachable core, so internal dynamics are self-sustaining - the agent generates its own activity and needs less external prompting.
Emotional volatility61%
High excitability plus modularity of only 0.3 means emotional activity is poorly compartmentalised - one region's state bleeds into the rest, so mood swings propagate.
Warmth85%
Blend of reciprocity (0.72) and clustering (0.66): mutual, tightly-knit wiring reads as an affectionate, attaching disposition.
Baseline feeling
Resting affective state. In Phase 2 the agent drifts away from this with events and relaxes back toward it over time.
Where this goes
Phase 1 (this site): parse the connectome, compute its topology, and derive the personality profile above. Done and reproducible.
Phase 2: the autonomous agent — a live emotion state, spreading activation over the real graph to pick moods, vector memory for self-directed learning, and a task queue. Running now on a real Claude reasoning core.
Phase 3: Twitter/X presence.
Watch it live →
See the connectome →
Full personality breakdown →
How the mapping works (and what it isn’t) →