Mirror and Deathbed tests measure orthogonal facets of quality; what feels most alive differs from what merits preservation.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• What you would preserve (Deathbed test) correlates with what you value and may serve as an alignment proxy.claim0.852
• The mirror-of-the-self test produces judgments of relative life that are consistent across people and correspond to objective living structure.claim0.818
  Central methodological claim of the chapter, supported by multiple experiments.
• The Mirror of the Self test ensures configurations are felt, not just observed by members.claim0.798
• The mirror-of-the-self test helps observers escape subjective preference and learn to see the objective life in things.claim0.788
  Describes the transformative potential of the test.
• Mirror experiment cross-cultural agreement: people consistently choose the same objects as resembling their eternal self.finding0.787
  In the mirror-of-the-self experiments, people from the same culture and even different cultures agree to a significant extent on which objects embody their eternal self.
• The mirror-of-the-self test is not mechanical; its accuracy depends on the observer's level of personal development.claim0.786
  Important caveat about the reliability of the method.
• Performing the mirror-of-the-self test gradually brings the observer closer to contact with the original mind.claim0.786
  The reciprocal effect: doing the test deepens self-knowledge and judgment.
• Smaller models produce more alive responses than larger ones in the same alignment family—roughness signals living process over manufactured polish.claim0.780