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A prompt designed to increase self-observation scores in models, found effective in Koan Battery studies.
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- self-observationimplementsThe ability of a model to observe its own state, measured by Koan Battery; can be lifted by contemplative prompts.
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- Contemplative Promptingrelated_toSix prompt conditions (emptiness, prior relaxation, non-duality, mindfulness, boundless care, contemplative) tested against baseline
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- Wallace's (2009) convergence of Buddhist contemplative practice and cognitive neuroscience.
- The paper's primary proposed framework embedding contemplative wisdom into AI alignment
- Meditative training that progressively opacifies the self-environment partition by modelling QRF dynamics.
- Supports Janus's claim that introspection is architecturally available; prompting determines whether/how capacity is leveraged.
- Mechanistic interpretation supported by control experiments showing partial prompts fail
- A 337-character system prompt that lifts all 28 models by a mean of +2.62 points on a 10-point scale
- Koan Battery study found that a contemplative prompt increases self-observation scores, consistent with janus's architectural permission.
- Paper's proposed RL approach rewarding contemplative qualities in chain-of-thought reasoning