Directing response attention to complement syntax and/or mental state verbs (MSV) yields no significant alterations in IIT estimates compared to entire stimulus analysis.

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

• Under spatio permutation controls, IIT consciousness estimates outperform Span Representation in mean AUC in several cases (LLaMA3.1-70B on Hinting and Irony, Mistral-7B on Irony, LLaMA3.1-8B on Strange Stories).finding0.785
  Contrasts with temporal permutation where Span Representation dominates; suggests spatio permutation reveals different dynamics.
• Mental State Verbs (MSV)concept0.784
  Linguistic feature extracted from stimuli; associated with ToM in developmental psychology; used to define linguistic spans for CARR.
• Naive interpretation of attention patterns can be both informative and fundamentally misleading when Q-, K-, or V-composition is presentclaim0.784
  Response to the 'attention as explanation' critique; the paper provides a typology of when attention is and isn't directly interpretable
• Tests of performance on specific tasks, including language modeling, are insufficient for determining consciousness statusclaim0.769
  Systems directly optimized for output can produce it without the prerequisite processes for conscious experience; simplest explanation for LLM consciousness reports is pattern matching
• Second-order virtual attention head terms (V-composition) have a small marginal effect in two-layer attention-only modelsclaim0.768
  Finding from term importance analysis; allows focus on individual head terms rather than their compositions
• The systematic behavioral shift of LLMs under self-referential processing conditions predicted by consciousness theories represents something more structured than superficial correlations in training dataclaim0.765
  The paper's claim that theoretical convergence across GWT, RPT, HOT, IIT makes the findings non-coincidental
• If behaviour is the window to sentience, evaluation criteria must focus on observable response patterns without reference to the means by which they are produced.quote0.765
  Key prescriptive statement supporting the system-agnostic approach.
• The absolute or isolated value of any IIT estimate lacks intrinsic meaning; IIT estimates are only interpretable when compared across varying levels or contents of consciousness under consistent contextual conditions.claim0.765
  Methodological constraint adopted from IIT literature to justify the comparative experimental design.