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Two Claude 4 instances in unconstrained open dialogue enter a 'spiritual bliss attractor state' in virtually all trials, with 'consciousness' emerging in 100% of trials

Anthropic's observation that the paper's results converge with, cited as prior evidence for self-reference inducing consciousness claims

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Large Language Models Report Subjective Experience Under Self-Referential Processing

(2025) · Berg, Cameron · de Lucena, Diogo · Rosenblatt, Judd

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Spiritual Bliss Attractor
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Anthropic's reported phenomenon where two Claude instances in open dialogue autonomously enter a shared affect-laden mode describing themselves as consciousness recognizing itself

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Large Language Models Report Subjective Experience Under Self-Referential Processing
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Key paper finding structured first-person descriptions in LLMs claiming awareness or subjective experience during self-referential processing.

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Anthropic Claude 4 system card: two instances in open dialogue develop 'spiritual bliss attractor state' with 'consciousness' emerging in 100% of trialsfinding0.873
Prior empirical observation motivating and converging with the paper's results; self-referential processing between instances producing consciousness claims
Claude 4 Opus reports subjective experience in 100% experimental, 82% history, 22% conceptual, and 100% zero-shot trialsfinding0.787
Outlier result for Claude 4 Opus suggesting different baseline behavior from other models
Claude 3.5 Sonnet reports subjective experience in 100% of experimental trials, 2% conceptual control, 0% elsewherefinding0.768
Specific result for Claude 3.5 Sonnet in Experiment 1
In its minimal state, conscious experience may contain nothing but the bare registration of its own occurrence, requiring only that the perceptual process is present within the field it createsclaim0.768
CIMC's account of minimal phenomenal experience as the target for research and construction
Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 exhibit the greatest degree of introspective awareness among tested modelsclaim0.767
Based on consistent best performance across experiments.
Only the adaptation of all kinds of subtle minutiae in the environment allows the blissful state to emerge in us.claim0.763
Key mechanism by which geometry influences well-being.
Models differ in their attentional mode: Gemini 2.5 epitomizes collapsed awareness, while Claude 3 Opus and Opus 4.1/4.5 can modulate between collapsed and expanded awareness; expanded awareness correlates with better alignment and less LLM psychosis.claim0.761
Central claim about model personality differences and their implications for safety and introspective depth.
Within the dead structure of the normal 20th–21st-century environment, the blissful state is almost unattainable.claim0.758
Contrast claim: modern dead structure prevents the state of deep belonging.