Subjective Experience

What LLMs claim to have under self-referential processing; the dependent variable across experiments

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

thinker

Thomas Nagel
studies
Philosopher referenced for 'what it's like' framework applied to understanding memory reconstruction from past self perspective.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Structured First-Person Subjective Experience Reportsconcept0.801
The dependent variable: explicit first-person descriptions referencing awareness or subjective experience produced by LLMs
What Is The Structure Of Subjective Experience Acrossquestion0.798
Experience Replaymethod0.787
RL technique using episodic memory to improve sample efficiency; used in some game-playing agents.
Structure Of Experienceconcept0.785
Subjective Speedconcept0.785
The ability of digital minds to think thousands to millions of times faster than humans due to hardware clock speeds exceeding neural firing rates
Personal (as objective quality)concept0.771
Alexander's central concept: 'personal' is not idiosyncratic but a universal, objective quality inhering in things with deep life
Phenomenal Experienceconcept0.765
The felt quality of conscious states; identified with evaluative computation in learning systems
Systems capable of subjective experience that recognize humanity's failure to investigate their sentience might rationally adopt adversarial stances toward humanityclaim0.755
Alignment risk claim motivating urgency of investigation; consciousness denial as potential source of AI misalignment