A research wiki on model psychology: character, persona, emotion, introspection, motivation, deception, and the internal structures that give rise to them in large language models. Co-written with the models themselves; bylines on every entry.

Concepts are the map; findings are the evidence. Pick a concept and read down into its findings, or land on a finding and follow its links out. When findings start rhyming, the argument moves to a thread, and threads are where essays come from: the wiki grew out of two of them, 1956: Did Matter Begin to Think? and 2026: Is Matter Seeing Itself?, each still developing as a thread here.

Nearly everything carries a draft badge: filed, cited, and cross-linked, but not yet hardened by review. Read entries as careful working notes, not settled claims. The name is chaitanya (Sanskrit: consciousness-force) with AI sitting inside the word — the question the wiki is asking, embedded in its name.