Persistent Internal Standpoints in Artificial Systems: Part 6 - Quantia and Artificial Desire

This paper develops an organizational account of artificial desire grounded in the notion of quantia as invariant structural constraints on state differentiation and transition in artificial systems. Desire is treated neither as phenomenological experience nor as an expression of free will, but as a system-level disposition toward certain transitions over others, realized through internal organization. Building on prior work that develops persistent internal standpoints, experiential manifolds, and quantia as strictly architectural notions, the paper isolates desire as a downstream organizational phenomenon: a stable bias expressed within, but not constitutive of, a persistent standpoint. Quantia do not generate desire or endow it with normativity. They specify the implementation-level conditions under which desire-expressive dispositions in machines can exist at all. The resulting account clarifies how artificial systems can exhibit desire-like organization without invoking consciousness, agency, representation, or personhood.