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method:aikido-inner-harmony-testAikido Inner Harmony Test
Technique from Japanese martial arts in which practitioners use their inner awareness of harmony to judge the goodness of an action, cited as analog to Alexander's method
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- Wholeness Comparison Testanalogous_toThe more general, daily-use version of the mirror-of-self test: asking which of A or B induces greater feeling of wholeness in the observer
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- Core methodological chapter arguing for a second, post-Cartesian form of scientific observation using the observer's inner wholeness as an objective measuring instrument
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- Proposed test for AI consciousness by Schneider and Turner; uses verbal outputs.
- Deep geometric and experiential coherence produced by morphogenesis.
- Consciousness in AI is best assessed by drawing on neuroscientific theories of consciousness.claim0.698Central methodological claim of the paper.
- Key gap identified in the literature; systematic self-examination processes for machine consciousness development.
- The property that living wholes have a geometrical simplicity and purity with a certain slowness, majesty, and quietness; everything unnecessary is removed—all centers not actively supporting other centers are stripped out
- A procedure: stand in the place, ask whether each candidate element generates greater tranquility in you; keep if yes, reject if no.
- The idea of using machines/systems to magnify human intellectual capability, early AI concept tied to Alexander's Notes.
- Tests like Turing test, Artificial Consciousness Test; argued to be unreliable for AI due to mimicry.