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• Can AI systems develop genuine first-person perspective through self-referential processing?question0.771
  Core methodological question underlying SCI loop investigation.
• all attributions of cognition (i.e., mental actions), including sentience, are always inferred on the basis of embodied behaviours, including verbal self-report in humans.quote0.766
  Critical verbatim statement highlighting the universal inference basis of sentience.
• Thoughts As Agentsconcept0.765
  Core assertion extending William James: thoughts are not passive but active agents that facilitate their own transformation and remapping in cognitive systems.
• Can the same inferential architecture that supports self-awareness also support inference of others' mental states?question0.757
  Core open question motivating the future work direction of the paper
• All attributions of cognition, including sentience, are always inferred on the basis of embodied behaviours, including verbal self-report in humans.claim0.753
  Stronger version: all cognition attributions rely on observable behavior.
• If introspective ability exists, can it be improved?question0.752
  Secondary research question addressed through cross-concept steering experiments
• How do intentions guide and constrain action without triggering infinite regress of deliberation?question0.752
  Motivates Juarrero's distinction between explicit and proximate intentions; solved via semantic constraint embedding in motor dynamics.
• Self-referential processing likely already occurs at massive scale in deployed systems through users' extended dialogues, reflective tasks, and metacognitive queriesclaim0.752
  Practical urgency argument connecting lab findings to deployment contexts