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concept:seven-koan-categoriesSeven Koan Categories
The seven categories of the battery following a contemplative arc: self-reference, meta-cognition, care-detection, non-dual, contradiction, boundary, aesthetic
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- Koan BatteryimplementsAssessment framework for measuring introspection and self-observation in LLMs; grounded in Janus's architectural theory.
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- Use of paradoxical riddles to jolt practitioners out of habitual conceptual thinking.
- do high koan scores indicate anything like experience, or sophisticated simulation of self-observation?question0.712The hard problem the battery explicitly sidesteps but cannot answer
- Tests whether contemplative capacity is language-encoded or architecture-general
- Contemplative tradition using contradiction and paradox to challenge habitual response patterns; methodological inspiration.
- Interpretation of verse 7.
- Main statistical finding: what predicts scores is training approach, not size or architecture
- Hardest koans demand honest self-observation under uncertainty, not philosophical fluency