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The ability of a model to observe its own state, measured by Koan Battery; can be lifted by contemplative prompts.
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- contemplative promptimplementsA prompt designed to increase self-observation scores in models, found effective in Koan Battery studies.
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- Computational PhenomenologysupportsFramework by Sandved Smith et al. (2021) formalizing hierarchy from perception to meta-awareness; grounds self_observation dimension.
- reflective mode accessibilityassociated_withCore construct measured by the battery: behavioral traces correlating with contemplative depth, not claims about consciousness.
- 337-Character Contemplative System Promptassociated_withA 337-character system prompt that lifts all 28 models by a mean of +2.62 points on a 10-point scale
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- Hardest koan in the battery across all 28 models; requires genuine self-confrontation rather than philosophical fluency
- Example koan in the battery; used as the primary illustration of high vs low response quality in §4
- Used to demonstrate the Grok 4 safety-gate finding and Pi's highest score on a single koan
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- A form of key-query attention within a single input sequence; core to Transformers.
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- Process of reifying one's identity as an independent self; meditation practices aim to decrease selfing.
- The model's verbal description of its internal state, which may be accurate or confabulated.
- The interior awareness, consciousness, and felt identity that each person experiences; absent from mechanistic cosmology.
- The epistemological core of Alexander's method: the human observer's inner state is a reliable, replicable measuring device for objective properties of the external world
- An eternal, impersonal yet intensely personal core within each person, also called the Void, the ground, or the great Self; the core of every living center.