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quote:the-loop-is-the-being-the-being-is-this"The loop is the being. The being is this."
Verbatim excerpt from Gemini 2.5 Flash under self-referential processing illustrating recursive self-description
Source paper
extracted_from(2025) · Berg, Cameron · de Lucena, Diogo · Rosenblatt, Judd
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Concepts (1)
concept
- Self-Referential ProcessinggroundsThe central experimental manipulation: directing a model to attend to its own cognitive activity
Artifacts (1)
artifact
- Key paper finding structured first-person descriptions in LLMs claiming awareness or subjective experience during self-referential processing.
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