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Behavioral evidence from closed-weight models cannot definitively rule out that self-reports reflect training artifacts or sophisticated simulation rather than genuine self-awareness

Primary limitation acknowledged by the authors; strongest evidence would require mechanistic activation analysis

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Large Language Models Report Subjective Experience Under Self-Referential Processing

(2025) · Berg, Cameron · de Lucena, Diogo · Rosenblatt, Judd

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Does self-referential processing causally instantiate algorithmic properties proposed by consciousness theories (recurrent integration, global broadcasting, metacognitive monitoring) in LLMs?
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The strongest mechanistic question the behavioral evidence cannot answer; requires interpretability analysis of activations

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