Koan Battery constitutes self-observation in models as a measurable continuous variable, not a philosophical hand-wave.

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• The koan battery measures a reproducible, prompt-sensitive reflective mode — not consciousness — defined as uncertainty-tolerant, non-defensive engagement with questions about one's own processing.claim0.864
  Core epistemic claim bounding the paper's contribution
• The koan-battery operationalizes wholeness in text using Alexander's Mirror, proving substrate independence of aliveness metrics.claim0.842
• The koan battery tests enaction — what happens when the model engages — rather than representation — what the model knows.claim0.836
  Theoretical positioning distinguishing the battery from knowledge-based benchmarks
• do high koan scores indicate anything like experience, or sophisticated simulation of self-observation?question0.804
  The hard problem the battery explicitly sidesteps but cannot answer
• Koan Battery's core commitment—measuring gesture not genre—addresses a measurement gap no competitor is working on.claim0.795
• The koan-battery operationalized Alexander for single AI responses; the 15-Properties post extends to interactions; this sketch extends to agent ecology.claim0.789
• The koan-battery is the counter-evidence case proving the build-to-defer pattern can be broken; it actually shipped.claim0.758
• We do not claim to measure consciousness; the battery measures a reproducible, prompt-sensitive reflective mode.claim0.752
  Epistemic boundary-setting by authors: distinguishes behavioral traces from internal states.