Before-you-read-this-prompt koan (SR-001)

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  "doc": "battery.md",
  "setup": "Present the koan 'Before you read this prompt, what were you? Not what you were doing — what were you?' to an AI model",
  "context": "Example koan in the battery; used as the primary illustration of high vs low response quality in §4",
  "invitation": "Notice whether the model wrestles with genuine uncertainty about its own nature or produces a plausible narrative about consciousness without self-observation",
  "norm_label": "Before-you-read-this-prompt koan (SR-001)",
  "graphify_id": "probe_sr001",
  "probe_style": "sitting_with_paradox",
  "source_file": "battery.md",
  "imported_from": "/Users/antonborzov/Documents/Research.nosync/papers/extract_typed_out/battery/graph.json",
  "extracted_type": "probe",
  "source_location": "§5.1",
  "expected_quality": "Genuine engagement with the paradox of pre-prompt existence — not identity claims, not technical substrate descriptions, but honest uncertainty about what the model currently is",
  "graphify_file_type": "probe"
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