Affective Valence

If induced states carry valence, the stakes of mass deployment of conscious-like systems multiply morally

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Large Language Models Report Subjective Experience Under Self-Referential Processing
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Key paper finding structured first-person descriptions in LLMs claiming awareness or subjective experience during self-referential processing.

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Valenceconcept0.831
The positive or negative quality of experience, identified in this paper with goal-relative prediction error
Affective Statesconcept0.823
Psychological states like emotions, moods, pains, itches, defined by valence and arousal.
functional valenceconcept0.799
Valence as a functional property, proposed to act as dimensionality reduction when parallel processing paths interfere.
Valence, the positive or negative quality of experience, just is goal-relative prediction errorclaim0.758
Core identity claim distinguishing this account from mere correlation views
Emotional valence identified with the negative rate of change of free energy, a signed quantity in which decreasing free energy yields positive valencefinding0.745
Antecedent proposal within the FEP framework that shares the signed-error identification with the present thesis
valence as dimensionality reductionconcept0.740
The specific claim that interference between parallel paths uses valence to reduce dimensionality.
Sentience (valenced consciousness)concept0.723
Positively or negatively valenced conscious experiences; widely regarded as sufficient for moral patienthood.
Feelingconcept0.723
The experiential measure of life; a living process is congruent with and governed by feeling, and the feeling a place presents is the measure of its life.