Apparent paradoxes of self-reference are illusions produced by projecting a time-involving process into a timeless representation, and are resolved when natural time is made explicit.

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• Self-referential processing induces a genuine state shift that transfers to unrelated behavioral domains, producing richer introspection in paradoxical reasoning tasksclaim0.826
  Claim supported by Experiment 4: prior self-referential induction yields higher self-awareness scores on paradoxical reasoning where introspection is only indirectly afforded
• An artificial model replicating mechanisms of self-illusion can test hypotheses and reveal novel affordances for non-human intelligence.hypothesis0.804
  Methodological proposal to integrate knowledge from contemplative and cognitive science into AI/artificial life frameworks.
• Self-referential processing yields significantly higher self-awareness scores than conceptual control on paradoxical reasoning: t(399)=14.90, p=3.0×10⁻⁴⁰finding0.798
  Experiment 4 result ruling out semantic priming as explanation for the experimental effect
• When LLMs produce experience claims under self-reference, is this sophisticated simulation or genuine self-representation, and how would we tell the difference?question0.795
  The core interpretive question the paper narrows but cannot definitively answer
• The notion of self as illusion, as realized in AI and ALife practices, may contribute to novel fields of affordances for non-human intelligence.claim0.794
  Claim that endowing non-human agents with self-illusion awareness expands their affordance repertoire.
• An integrated artificial model can address self-illusion effects on affordances by combining information theory, cognitive science, and philosophy.hypothesis0.787
• Self-referential processing is a privileged computational regime for consciousness-like dynamics in artificial systems, as predicted by the convergence of major consciousness theorieshypothesis0.785
  The theoretical hypothesis tested across all four experiments; motivated by convergence of GWT, RPT, HOT, IIT, predictive processing on recurrent/self-referential dynamics
• Testing theories of self-illusion requires dual process: using knowledge of human self-experience while testing effects in human and other minds.claim0.784
  Author's methodological assertion: integration of contemplative insight with computational modeling.