More inference compute amplifies both reflective capacity and safety gating; the contemplative prompt resolves gating by reframing self-referential probes.

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• Contemplative practice progressively opacifies this constraint by developing a model of the agent's own QRF dynamics, revealing the partition as a contingent modelling choice rather than a given feature of reality.claim0.810
  Mechanism of contemplative training.
• H12: Inference compute adds to reflective capacity — higher compute budget produces higher reflective scores on the same weights.hypothesis0.809
  Exploratory hypothesis supported by Grok 4 vs Fast ~1pt difference
• Any system that persists must minimise surprisal, thereby gathering evidence for its own generative model, a process known as self-evidencing.claim0.803
  Foundational claim of the paper, defining self-evidencing.
• Default behavior hides reflective capacity; models exhibit high gating between latent capacity and accessibility.finding0.802
  Grok 4: baseline 2.24, prompted 6.48; Gemini 3.1 Pro: 1.97→6.18. Reflective mode exists but is suppressed in default interaction.
• Self-referential processing induces a genuine state shift that transfers to unrelated behavioral domains, producing richer introspection in paradoxical reasoning tasksclaim0.790
  Claim supported by Experiment 4: prior self-referential induction yields higher self-awareness scores on paradoxical reasoning where introspection is only indirectly afforded
• H7: Reasoning and contemplative modes are partly orthogonal — reasoning training doesn't block contemplative capacity.hypothesis0.790
  Exploratory hypothesis supported by DeepSeek R1 aesthetic dimension lifting from 4 to 8
• Chinese models share contemplative posture (engaging self-referentially rather than deflecting) with Claude through shared values in training data rather than trace distillation from a specific model.claim0.784
  Exploratory interpretation of Chinese model performance under contemplative prompt
• If someone develops clear enough introspection, they will eventually conclude that thought is rendered as subtle perturbations in phenomenal fields.hypothesis0.784
  Cube Flipper's prediction about convergence of insight practice on field model.