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Scaled dot-product attention is the most faithful, structured, and theoretically grounded method for incorporating stimulus influence into response representations leading to an RN.

Justifies the methodological choice of attention over concatenation, mean pooling, residual connections, or joint embedding.

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Can "consciousness" be observed from large language model (LLM) internal states? Dissecting LLM representations obtained from Theory of Mind test with Integrated Information Theory and Span Representation analysis

(2025) · Li, Jingkai

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Can 'Consciousness' Be Observed from Large Language Model (LLM) Internal States? Dissecting LLM Representations Obtained from Theory of Mind Test with Integrated Information Theory and Span Representation Analysis
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The primary paper being extracted — applies IIT 3.0 and 4.0 to LLM representation sequences derived from ToM test data to investigate whether consciousness phenomena can be observed.

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Call to extend the inference of sentience to non-biological systems as well.
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Definition of what makes an observer significant.
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Describes the mechanism linking compassion and intelligence.