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concept:functional-emotionsFunctional Emotions
Sofroniew et al.'s causally functional emotion-concept representations discovered in Claude Sonnet 4.5.
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- Higher-order thought theoryassociated_withTheory of consciousness where metacognitive representations are necessary for conscious experience.
- Beast Machine Theoryanalogous_toSeth's predictive-processing account grounding consciousness in interoceptive inference and organismic regulation.
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- Persona Vectorsassociated_withDirections in activation space encoding a model's dispositional self-presentation, used as evidence for self-modelling.
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- Central interpretability finding bearing on Level 2 and Level 4 indicators and the intelligence-consciousness convergence.
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