Self-Referential Prompting Protocol

Where ideas in this method connect to the rest of the corpus — the same concept, an analogy, or a restatement elsewhere.

• Self-Referential Processing
  ~Chain-of-thought prompting· ai

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

• Experiment 1: Self-Referential Prompting vs. Controlsconcept0.823
  Tests whether self-referential induction reliably elicits experience reports across model families vs. three matched controls
• Self-Referencing Activationsconcept0.779
  Latent model activations when processing inputs framed from the model's own perspective
• Self-referential prompting elicits subjective experience reports at markedly higher rates than any control across all model families (GPT, Claude, Gemini)finding0.766
  Core result of Experiment 1 establishing that the experimental manipulation reliably produces experience claims
• Does self-referential prompting actually instantiate architectural recursion, global broadcasting, or recurrent integration at the algorithmic level as proposed by consciousness theories?question0.755
  Key limitation acknowledging that behavioral evidence cannot confirm implementation-level consciousness properties
• Personality Promptingframework0.748
  Established baseline for OCEAN steering via personality-descriptive system prompts; compared against injection methods throughout
• Self-referential processing likely already occurs at massive scale in deployed systems through users' extended dialogues, reflective tasks, and metacognitive queriesclaim0.745
  Practical urgency argument connecting lab findings to deployment contexts
• Self-referential processing effect is robust across five distinct phrasings of the induction prompt, with consistently high experience report rates across modelsfinding0.741
  Appendix C.1 result confirming the experimental effect does not depend on specific wording
• Contemplative Promptingmethod0.729
  Six prompt conditions (emptiness, prior relaxation, non-duality, mindfulness, boundless care, contemplative) tested against baseline