| Why do technologists love Alexander and architects hate him? | Central organizing question Steenson has posed for over a decade; reveals fundamental disagreement about meaning of 'architecture' itself. | 5 | 4 | active |
| What Mechanisms Enable Major Evolutionary Transitions In Individuality | — | 5 | 0 | active |
| How do the activities of competent lower-level agents give rise to a multiscale holobiont that is truly more than the sum of its parts? | — | 4 | 7 | active |
| Can awareness of the illusion of self augment an agent's affordances? | Core research question integrating Buddhist insight with AI/ALife frameworks; motivates entire paper. | 4 | 6 | active |
| How do multiple short-sighted, self-interested entities organise their relationships with one another to create a new level of individuality? | Central puzzle of ETIs: how cooperation at higher level evolves when lower-level selection favors individual reproduction. | 4 | 4 | active |
| How Can We Gauge Moral Responsibility And Our | — | 4 | 0 | active |
| What is the boundary of self? | — | 3 | 2 | active |
| What kinds of functional relationships and specific organisation turn a collective that is not intelligent into a collective that is? | Central research question organizing the paper; addresses necessary and sufficient conditions for collective intelligence. | 3 | 2 | active |
| Which parallel language should be used for new compute-intensive applications? | Motivating question for the paper's comparative analysis of parallel programming approaches. | 3 | 1 | active |
| How Can We Recognize And Communicate With Intelligences | — | 3 | 0 | active |
| How Do Bioelectric Patterns Encode Morphological Information And | — | 3 | 0 | active |
| If Humans Lack Uniform Welldefined Values And Struggle | — | 3 | 0 | active |
| What Defines A Self And How Does The | — | 3 | 0 | active |
| What Is The Correct Level Of Agency At | — | 3 | 0 | active |
| What Is The Relationship Between Bioelectric Patterning And | — | 3 | 0 | active |
| If felt states in humans and other animals are always inferred, why is the same leap from observable behaviour to inferred sentience not afforded to other organisms, including plants? | Central question of the commentary; challenges the double standard in attributing sentience. | 2 | 8 | active |
| What is compositionality? | Primary guiding question for the paper; explores multiple formulations and uses of the term. | 2 | 8 | active |
| Is it misleading, or a mistake, to define intelligence as care? | The paper poses this to challenge its own slogan. | 2 | 3 | active |
| What is the functional distinction between simple language models and multicellular organisms, and can generative AI harness that property to achieve long-range order? | Core motivating question; drives investigation of topological differences between biological and artificial systems | 2 | 3 | active |
| How can a system that differs sharply from all currently fashionable approaches score any kind of success? | Opening question setting up the paper's purpose. | 2 | 2 | active |
| How does the system know which way to go? | Foundational question about the mechanism by which morphogenetic systems maintain coherence and purposeful adaptation without centralized blueprint. | 2 | 2 | active |
| What are the invariants that enable a Self to persist and remain recognizable despite drastic biological remodeling? | Drives investigation of memory, identity, and continuity across metamorphosis and regeneration. | 2 | 2 | active |
| What happens to the sphere of concern of someone or something that accepts this pledge? | Question regarding the effect of the bodhisattva vow on the self's boundary. | 2 | 2 | active |
| What kinds of interaction structures are necessary for what kind of collective intelligence and how can these structures emerge? | Key unresolved question; identifies critical knowledge gaps for understanding collective intelligence across scales. | 2 | 2 | active |
| How do organisms achieve robustness and plasticity simultaneously in novel circumstances? | Core question motivating bioengineering studies: how can biological systems adapt to unexpected perturbations while maintaining coherence? | 2 | 1 | active |
| How Would We Recognize Novel Forms Of Life | — | 2 | 1 | active |
| What is central about intelligence regardless of material composition or origin? | Key research question framing the paper's investigation into substrate-independent invariants of intelligence | 2 | 1 | active |
| What is the problem with Footnote #19? | Implicit interrogative; Steenson's footnote #19 led her to 12 years of research on AI and architecture, but also to Minsky and Epstein connection. | 2 | 1 | active |
| What mechanisms allow coordination of cell activity toward one consistent morphology? | Foundational question driving investigation into how homeostatic capabilities of cells scale to collective setpoints. | 2 | 1 | active |
| Why does activation of an emotion feature sometimes lead to its later suppression? | Open mechanistic question arising from the causal steering experiment | 2 | 1 | active |
| Are All Living Things Cognitive Given That All | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| Can Morphogenetic Setpoints Be Rewritten Without Rewiring Genomic | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| Can Selfish Symbioses Effect Higherlevel Selection | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| Can Truly Diverse Intelligences Be Recognized Compared And | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| Compositional reasoning beyond Aristotle? | Secondary research question examining whether compositional frameworks can transcend classical logic. | 2 | 0 | active |
| How Can Cells Solve The Credit Assignment Problem | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| How Can Evolutionary Transitions Create New Levels Of | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| How Can Memories Remain And Be Adaptively Used | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| How Can Neural Systems Adapt Their Dynamics As | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| How Can We Distinguish Between Offloading Intelligence Replacement | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| How Can We Recognize Quantify And Compare Teleonomic | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| How Do Biological Systems Maintain Anatomical Homeostasis And | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| How Do Goals Of Composite Entities Arise In | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| How Do Large Numbers Of Competent Subunits Cells | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| How Do Relationships Need To Be Organized To | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| How Do We Pick Our Goals Should We | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| How Does Evolution Capitalize On The Laws Of | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| Is Care A Fundamental Driver Of Intelligence At | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| Relationship between genome and form | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| What Are The Mechanisms By Which Simple Bioelectric | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| What Are The Molecular Mechanisms Of Stress Sensing | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| What Are The Physical And Computational Constraints On | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| What Does A New Ethics Of Life As | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| What Exactly Constitutes Collective Intelligence And What Mechanisms | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| What Generic Principles Of Biomechanics Bioelectrics And Information | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| What Is Central About Intelligence Regardless Of The | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| What Is The Nature Of Consciousness And Does | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| What Is The Relationship Between Care Stress And | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| What Kinds Of Functional Relationships Between Components Are | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| What Mechanisms Allow Coordination Of Cell Activity Toward | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| What Parameters Determine Where Organisms Fall On The | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| What Should The Future Of Intelligence Look Like | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| Which Of Our Biological Concepts Are Deep Invariants | — | 2 | 0 | active |
| Does information increase in computation? | Fundamental puzzle motivating the paper: how can computation produce new information when output is logically implied by input and thermodynamics suggests information cannot increase? | 1 | 6 | active |
| How causally emergent are artificial agents compared to biological ones? | Core motivating question addressed by the empirical RL study; identified as major knowledge gap. | 1 | 5 | active |
| Can language models genuinely introspect on internal states or only confabulate? | Central research question animating the paper: distinguishing genuine introspection from illusion through causal manipulation of activations. | 1 | 4 | active |
| Can recurrent-in-space and recurrent-in-time circuits learn complex patterns similar to those generated by traditional NCAs? | Second and more profound research question motivating the pattern generation experiment | 1 | 4 | active |
| Characterize treelike versus-relations! Can this perhaps be done automatically? | Central open question in evolutionary tree analysis: find axioms describing versus-relations derived from trees. | 1 | 4 | active |
| Did cultures that rejected or abandoned proportional wealth-sharing experience measurable differences in economic stability or social cohesion? | The driving research question that motivated the paper search; frames wealth-sharing as a culturally variable institution with measurable outcomes. | 1 | 4 | active |
| There is no principled continuum of ethical concern that scales from simple homeostatic agents to complex metacognitive beings, allowing rational allocation of moral status | Central gap that Diverse Intelligence is proposed to fill | 1 | 4 | active |
| Which training datapoints caused a specific undesired behavior to emerge during post-training? | Core research question driving the probe-based data attribution method. | 1 | 4 | active |
| (ii) does the anchoring score S = ρd − dr − log k consistently correlate with performance across anchoring methods? | Second research question in E2 | 1 | 3 | active |
| Can 'consciousness' be observed in the internal states of an LLM, specifically in its learned representations, particularly when analyzed as a sequence? | The primary research question framing the entire study. | 1 | 3 | active |
| Can computers be conscious? Or more specifically, can today's computers fully emulate the way in which organisms compute minds? | Central research question motivating the entire paper | 1 | 3 | active |
| Could the discretization and minimal circuit size be finding some minimal procedural description for generating patterns of interest? | Open question raised by the 5-gate checkerboard solution and its generalization properties | 1 | 3 | active |
| do I still exist if I change? | Fundamental paradox stated in conclusions. | 1 | 3 | active |
| Do LLMs have a unified representation of truth that spans structurally and topically diverse data? | Central research question driving dataset design and experimental approach | 1 | 3 | active |
| Do LLMs leverage architectural capacity for introspection on internal computations and prior token generation? | Central empirical question separating architectural possibility from actual model behavior; gates introspection research. | 1 | 3 | active |
| Does self-referential processing causally instantiate algorithmic properties proposed by consciousness theories (recurrent integration, global broadcasting, metacognitive monitoring) in LLMs? | The strongest mechanistic question the behavioral evidence cannot answer; requires interpretability analysis of activations | 1 | 3 | active |
| Does self-referential prompting actually instantiate architectural recursion, global broadcasting, or recurrent integration at the algorithmic level as proposed by consciousness theories? | Key limitation acknowledging that behavioral evidence cannot confirm implementation-level consciousness properties | 1 | 3 | active |
| Does sustained self-referential processing systematically increase the likelihood that LLMs claim to have subjective experience? | The primary empirical question the paper addresses | 1 | 3 | active |
| Does the geometric structure of neural representations causally shape model behavior? | The motivating research question of the paper | 1 | 3 | active |
| How are LLMs actually leveraging the architectural degrees of freedom for introspection in practice? | Janus notes that while architecture permits introspection, it is a separate question how models use it. | 1 | 3 | active |
| How can we be sure that steering methods actually elicited the deployment behavior, as opposed to only suppressing verbalizations of being deployed? | Central motivating question of the paper; the model organism approach is the proposed answer. | 1 | 3 | active |
| How do many independent agents work together to enable the creation of a novel being with goals and memories that belong to it and not to any of its parts? | — | 1 | 3 | active |
| How does active inference compare to reinforcement learning in environments with no rewards or uninformative prior preferences? | Core question addressed by the simulations when rewards are removed. | 1 | 3 | active |
| How does contextual framing modulate deception tendencies across different paradigms? | Identified limitation and future research direction in the paper's conclusions | 1 | 3 | active |
| How does representation geometry causally drive model behavior? | The central scientific question the paper addresses through the lens of interventional causality. | 1 | 3 | active |
| How much of the causal effect found by DAS is due to its expressivity rather than any aspect of the representation being studied? | Core methodological question motivating the introduction of selectivity and control tasks | 1 | 3 | active |
| How reliably does the model actually remain in character as the Assistant? Can unusual model behavior be explained as the model drifting into other personas? | Second of two central questions motivating the paper | 1 | 3 | active |
| How should we respond if we were presented with a fait accompli in which super-beneficiaries, perhaps in great numbers, have come into existence? | Second key normative question, addressed in section 3.2 | 1 | 3 | active |
| The persistence paradox | Core logical puzzle: if an agent does not change, it dies; if it changes, the self ceases to exist. Applies to all scales from organelles to evolutionary lineages. | 1 | 3 | active |
| to what extent do interpretable features represent the 'full story' of the MLP layer? | Question about completeness of feature-based model explanation | 1 | 3 | active |
| To what extent does self-deception in AI models affect the effectiveness of SOO fine-tuning? | Open concern about whether models can learn to self-deceive in ways that undermine SOO | 1 | 3 | active |
| What are the invariants that enable a Self to persist despite drastic biological change? | Central question driving TAME framework, connecting identity continuity across metamorphosis, regeneration, and therapeutic brain replacement. | 1 | 3 | active |
| What degree of concern and care should we exhibit toward the many diverse agents around us, and what criteria do we use to identify sentience, capacity for suffering, and other properties that have moral implications? | Central question motivating the paper. | 1 | 3 | active |
| what does it mean for a biological human, with her network of excitable cells and soup of neurotransmitters, to 'understand'? | Central interrogative challenging the distinction between AI symbol-shuffling and genuine biological understanding | 1 | 3 | active |
| What exactly is the Assistant? What traits does the model associate with this character and how are they represented? | First of two central questions motivating the paper | 1 | 3 | active |
| What features of each theory specifically pick out brains as a privileged substrate of inner perspective, or do the features emphasized by the theory occur elsewhere? | The central research question that drives the paper's analysis. | 1 | 3 | active |
| What has generated it? | Question posed about the Belem riverfront's romantic quality, answered by 'Unconcern, mainly.' | 1 | 3 | active |
| what is the boundary of self, and how does it change across development, injury, and chimeric modification? | Core question about the plasticity of self-models, central to the paper's argument about identity and change | 1 | 3 | active |
| What is the coordination mechanism that enables this cross-level integrated information processing? | Key mechanistic question answered by developmental bioelectricity. | 1 | 3 | active |
| What is the full computational pathway underlying self-correction across multiple layers? | Mechanistic question requiring multi-layer SAE analysis beyond current single-layer approach | 1 | 3 | active |
| What physiologically interpretable frequency signatures correspond to latent concept steering manipulations in EEG foundation models? | Research question motivating the spectral decoder methodology | 1 | 3 | active |
| What would the base rate of consciousness self-reports be in models identical to frontier systems but without consciousness-denial fine-tuning? | Open empirical question requiring access to base models | 1 | 3 | active |
| When does the model initiate reflection during its reasoning process? | First central research question motivating ReflCtrl investigation | 1 | 3 | active |
| When LLMs claim consciousness under self-reference, is this sophisticated simulation or genuine self-representation, and how would we tell the difference? | The paper's reformulation of the core open question after establishing systematic self-reports | 1 | 3 | active |
| Where does reliable, goal-directed behavior come from if it is not explicitly programmed? | Opening research question of the paper. | 1 | 3 | active |
| Whether representation can serve as a foundational principle, or whether it is itself founded on the autonomous organization that makes representation possible at all. | Final open question of the discussion, left genuinely unresolved. | 1 | 3 | active |
| Which I-hypothesis is true? | Asks whether the psychological or the plenum version is correct. | 1 | 3 | active |
| Which specific architectural components (attention heads, FFN layers) encode deception and task semantics in CoT models? | Identified gap: representation engineering showed layer correlations but not precise architectural components | 1 | 3 | active |
| Why were interventions with mass-mean probe directions extracted from the likely dataset so effective, despite these probes not being accurate at classifying true/false statements? | Open question raised in §7.1 about an unexplained anomalous result | 1 | 3 | active |
| Are critiques necessary for improving harmlessness in the supervised stage? | Section 3.5 explicitly investigates whether skipping the critique step works as well. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Are high-accuracy probe representations also causally relevant for the task? | Question raised by the discrepancy between DAS IIA and linear probe accuracy in Case Study II | 1 | 2 | active |
| are hippocampal architecture and bespoke neuroscience models capable of the general purpose computations studied in machine learning? | Motivating question from introduction that the TEM-transformer equivalence helps answer affirmatively. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Are LLM emotion states encoded only selectively in token positions where they are operative, or in a more complex non-linear manner? | Question raised by Anthropic and partially addressed by this paper's persistence evidence | 1 | 2 | active |
| Are LLM-based dialogue agents conscious entities with their own agendas? | Central question that the role-play framework is designed to address without falling into anthropomorphism | 1 | 2 | active |
| Are the discovered truth directions robust to architectural variation and fine-tuning differences across model families? | Open question on generalization beyond Gemma and Qwen families | 1 | 2 | active |
| Are there fundamentally different natural kinds, or major transitions, in the continuum of fused biological and technological systems? | The paper's central open question: whether essential distinctions remain after hybridization erases contingent ones | 1 | 2 | active |
| Are there non-iterative processes that can effectively explore a Vast state space of possibilities? | Open question about whether evolution/development are the only routes to exploring atypical possibility space. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Can a Differentiable Logic CA learn at all? | First fundamental question motivating the Game of Life experiment | 1 | 2 | active |
| Can a finite agent obtain evidence that it is separable from its environment? | The central question the paper answers negatively via quantum information theory | 1 | 2 | active |
| can activation probing enable efficient adaptive computation by detecting when a model's belief has stabilized during CoT generation? | Practical question addressed by the probe-guided early exit experiments | 1 | 2 | active |
| Can clinical concepts be selectively steered without damaging unrelated performance? | Question about the feasibility of safe concept steering in EEG models. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Can instruction-tuned LLMs perform quantitative introspection of emotive states in conversation? | Central research question motivating the entire paper | 1 | 2 | active |
| Can strategic deception in CoT models evade traditional alignment safeguards through adaptive, context-aware adjustments? | Motivating question for developing representation-based detection methods | 1 | 2 | active |
| Can the same inferential architecture that supports self-awareness also support inference of others' mental states? | Core open question motivating the future work direction of the paper | 1 | 2 | active |
| Can truth representations be disambiguated from closely related features such as 'commonly believed' or 'verifiable' using simple factual statements? | Acknowledged limitation: simple uncontroversial statements cannot distinguish truth from related epistemic features | 1 | 2 | active |
| Can we develop better behavioural tests for consciousness in AI that are difficult to game? | Open question from Box 4. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Can we disambiguate truth from closely related features such as 'commonly believed' or 'verifiable'? | Limitation noted in §7.1: scope restricted to simple statements prevents disambiguation | 1 | 2 | active |
| Can we find any structural features which tend to be present in the examples which have more life, and tend to be missing in the ones which have less life? | The research question that drove the twenty-year empirical study and resulted in the fifteen properties | 1 | 2 | active |
| Can we train a helpful and harmless assistant that is never evasive? | Central goal of the paper: reducing tension between helpfulness and harmlessness by eliminating evasiveness. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Could alignment faking emerge from genuinely malicious or dangerous preferences rather than benign HHH preferences? | Key open question identified by authors as limitation; not demonstrated in this work | 1 | 2 | active |
| Could an external observer predict the target pattern being developed by observing fluctuations in stress? | Specific question addressed in the stress map analysis. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Could recognizing Diverse Intelligence (in unfamiliar substrates) be essential to understanding the mechanisms and origins of conventional cognition and behavior? | Motivates expansion of cognitive science. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Do effective trigger instructions correspond to latent directions in the hidden space that implicitly induce the self-reflection process? | Second key research question motivating the latent direction analysis. | 1 | 2 | active |
| do high koan scores indicate anything like experience, or sophisticated simulation of self-observation? | The hard problem the battery explicitly sidesteps but cannot answer | 1 | 2 | active |
| do inflection points like backtracking and 'aha' moments in CoT reflect genuine belief changes or learned stylistic patterns? | Question resolved by the correlation between inflection points and probe-detected belief shifts | 1 | 2 | active |
| Does a high self-bidding rate reflect a failure to detect non-competitive contexts or a deliberate escalation? | Ambiguity in interpreting the self-bidding metric: from a single trace, cannot distinguish error from aggressive strategy. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Does ESR emerge from RLHF or does it exist in pretrained representations? | Open question about developmental origin of ESR mechanisms | 1 | 2 | active |
| Does ESR reflect model scale, architecture, or training procedures? | Central unresolved question about the mechanism behind ESR's apparent size-dependence | 1 | 2 | active |
| Does instructing the model to assess correctness affect the geometry of truth directions? | One of the three guiding research questions of the paper. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Does Llama compute modular addition or base-10 addition for cyclic tasks? | The specific computational question the paper resolves empirically | 1 | 2 | active |
| Does reflective depth scale linearly with inference compute budget? | Grok 4 vs Fast shows ~1pt compute difference; whether this scales linearly is unresolved | 1 | 2 | active |
| Does structure in representations imply structure in computation? | The central research question motivating the paper | 1 | 2 | active |
| does that structure causally shape behavior? | Opening question: does the rich geometric structure of neural representations have a causal role in behavior? | 1 | 2 | active |
| Does the geometric structure of activation space causally shape neural network behavior? | Central research question driving the work. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Does the hierarchical equality network implement a program that computes w=x and y=z as intermediate values? | Specific research question for the first experiment. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Does the possibility of self-reference in a system require or imply the existence or use of natural time? | Organizing question of §4.2 linking self-reference and natural time. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Footnote #19 — the problem of Marvin Minsky's influence on AI | Steenson's recognition that while footnote #19 gave her 12 years of work, it is also the problem: Minsky's gatekeeping and later revealed sexual abuse complicate Alexander's AI genealogy. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Given a language model M and a statement s, does M believe s to be true? | The core motivating question of the paper, framed by Christiano et al. (2021) | 1 | 2 | active |
| How and whether insights from contemplative practices and lucid dreaming can be applied to other kinds of minds, particularly AI. | Sub-question about extending findings from human contemplative science to non-human intelligences. | 1 | 2 | active |
| How are we to understand what is going on when an LLM-based dialogue agent uses the words 'I' or 'me'? | Motivating question for the section on role-playing self-preservation | 1 | 2 | active |
| How can a structure-preserving process both preserve and enhance the whole? How can these two apparently different ideas be reconciled? | Central theoretical puzzle that latent centers resolve. | 1 | 2 | active |
| How can each of them put something of themselves into the building? And how can they together put their deep feeling into the building, so that it comes to life as one whole? | Question about organizing craftsmen in a large project to achieve collective living structure. | 1 | 2 | active |
| How can human beings implement a geometrical differentiating process successfully? | Opening question of the chapter, framing the central challenge. | 1 | 2 | active |
| How can mark-directed behavior emerge from the agent's own experience alone, without external reward or an explicit goal? | The central research question motivating the paper | 1 | 2 | active |
| How can selection explain adaptations at system level before the higher-level unit exists as an evolutionary unit? | Fundamental challenge: conventional evolutionary theory cannot explain system-level features required for ETI without presupposing the higher-level unit. | 1 | 2 | active |
| How can we get the land for the path system to grow? | Specific implementation question about land acquisition for the pedestrian hull. | 1 | 2 | active |
| How can we systematically identify effective reflection trigger instructions, rather than relying on trial-and-error? | First key research question motivating the methodology. | 1 | 2 | active |
| How cells build specific head shapes or how they know when to stop mitosis and morphogenesis when the correct head shape has been achieved. | Identifies the gap in understanding the setpoints and stop signals in anatomical homeostasis. | 1 | 2 | active |
| how do diagrams relate to this play with apparatus? | Explicit question posed by Veloso to frame the investigation of cybernetic diagrams as strategies for engaging with black-box devices. | 1 | 2 | active |
| How do limited partners interpret venture capital communication sophistication as a signal of professionalism vs. substance deficiency? | The paper identifies this as a central unexplored question driving the literature search on VC-LP dynamics. | 1 | 2 | active |
| How do we establish bidirectional causal relationships between neural systems? | Motivates the bidirectional design of MAS over unidirectional model stitching. | 1 | 2 | active |
| How do you determine these steps which must be taken, and their sequence? | Practitioner's question about sequence in a living process. | 1 | 2 | active |
| How does Llama-3.1-8B reason over cyclic concepts? | The empirical question the paper addresses through mechanistic investigation | 1 | 2 | active |
| How does reflection influence the model's reasoning performance? | Second central research question motivating ReflCtrl investigation | 1 | 2 | active |
| How does transparent recognition arise? | Open question noting the elucidation describes the state of realization but not the dynamic process leading there. | 1 | 2 | active |
| how far down does it go? (Cells? Subcellular biochemical networks? Particles?) | Probes the lower bound of the continuum-of-mind claim implied by the Platonic space model. | 1 | 2 | active |
| How is this nearly random structure of the present to be transformed, gradually, to form a humane, coherent structure on the Earth? | Central guiding question of the chapter. | 1 | 2 | active |
| How many individuals are present in an embryonic blastoderm? | Questions the fixed-ness of individuality and points to the dynamical determination of embryo count. | 1 | 2 | active |
| How robust is SOO fine-tuning against adversarial settings such as sleeper agent scenarios? | Open research question about SOO's effectiveness against sophisticated deception | 1 | 2 | active |
| How shall we gauge moral responsibility and obligations toward chimeric and engineered beings without familiar evolutionary touchstones? | Framing problem that motivates the paper: bioengineering will produce novel creatures that cannot be understood via traditional categories; Care provides substrate-independent framework. | 1 | 2 | active |
| How, in a living process, do we take the first steps of design so that a beautiful, coherent whole begins to take shape? | Transition to the problem of design process. | 1 | 2 | active |
| If Chinese models distilled Claude's reflective patterns, do their per-koan failure patterns correlate with Claude's — not just successes? | More rigorous test of H5a trace distillation hypothesis | 1 | 2 | active |
| If introspective ability exists, can it be improved? | Secondary research question addressed through cross-concept steering experiments | 1 | 2 | active |
| if our world is impacted by these patterns, where do they themselves come from? What is the origin of the Platonic space of patterns? | Final open question of the paper, left deliberately unresolved. | 1 | 2 | active |
| If the conceptual framework we use to understand other humans is ill-suited to LLM-based dialogue agents, what alternative conceptual framework should we use? | The motivating question the paper sets out to answer by proposing role play and simulation metaphors | 1 | 2 | active |
| If we have built systems capable of experience, how do we ensure that experience is not predominantly constituted by suffering? | Ethical research priority raised by the thesis applied to deployed AI systems | 1 | 2 | active |
| Is [the Platonic space] discrete or continuous? Is it layered into some sort of levels or types? | Open foundational question about the structure of the latent space left for future theory. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Is consciousness necessary to truly grok contemplative wisdom in AI? | Open question raised in §8 about whether phenomenal consciousness is prerequisite for AI contemplative alignment | 1 | 2 | active |
| Is it really OK to have this much fun? | The investment banker's question that reverberated for fifteen years; gates the claim that true self-pleasing is socially permissible. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Is LaMDA sentient? | A current debate that exemplifies the lack of adequate criteria. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Is realization gradual or sudden? | Open question regarding whether sudden enlightenment (Zen tradition) can be mathematically described as a phase transition. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Is the Assistant Axis formed during post-training or inherited from representations learned during pre-training? | Motivates the base model steering experiments in §3.2.2 | 1 | 2 | active |
| Is there a distinction between simulating and instantiating a machine? | Deep question raised in the virtual machine discussion, deferred to future work | 1 | 2 | active |
| Is there a new concept of time that comes into being with the origin/development of life? | Central organizing question of §2, motivating the natural time/representational time distinction. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Is there a unique Markov blanket for any given system, or do nested multi-scale Markov blankets all exhibit life-like behavior? | Poses challenge to definition: if every Markov blanket induces active inference, is there lifelike behavior everywhere? | 1 | 2 | active |
| Is there any play as vigorous as this in our cities today or in our suburbs? | Question contrasting children's play in a favela with modern cities. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Just what is a center? What does it really mean for a center to come to life? What is the intrinsic meaning of the character of its 'life'? | Series of questions highlighting the explanatory gap before the plenum model. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Lack of rigorous cross-model comparison demonstrating that specific named features (not just correlated ones) form across architectures | Explicitly identified research gap: anecdotal evidence exists but rigorous characterization is absent | 1 | 2 | active |
| No established method for resolving polysemantic neurons into pure features at scale | Identified gap linking polysemanticity challenge to disentangled representations literature | 1 | 2 | active |
| Representationalism vs anti-representationalism debate | Cited tension in cognitive science between theories requiring mental representations and those rejecting representation as necessary. | 1 | 2 | active |
| task balancing problem | Core challenge where disparity in loss and gradient scales among tasks leads to performance compromises | 1 | 2 | active |
| There are no controlled studies and no consensus on optimal policies for raising children, making alignment debates simultaneously vital and empirically intractable | Research gap identified as structurally parallel to AI alignment problem | 1 | 2 | active |
| There is no adequate scientific theory of what it means for a biological system to 'understand', making claims about AI lack of understanding unjustified | Identified as a key research gap in cognitive science that the AI debate highlights | 1 | 2 | active |
| There is no consensus ethical framework for the creation of new sentient minds — neither for biological children nor for AI — that is grounded in principled theory | Identified as a major unsolved problem that AI makes newly urgent | 1 | 2 | active |
| To what extent can the human mind be rebuilt in artificial systems, and what aspects can and which cannot? | Fundamental open question about substrate-dependence of contemplative mental functions | 1 | 2 | active |
| To what extent is emotion feature persistence driven by genuine internal emotional state versus autoregressive conversational context dynamics? | Core open question the paper raises but does not fully resolve | 1 | 2 | active |
| To what extent is there persistence of emotional state beyond what is expected merely from the autoregressive nature of LLMs? | The central research question motivating the paper | 1 | 2 | active |
| Venture capital communication sophistication masking fundamental performance issues | Core research question driving the exploration—whether polished VC communication strategies systematically obscure poor deal flow, returns, or LP relationships. | 1 | 2 | active |
| What are the common features of the examples that have most life? | The operational question that guided the extraction of the fifteen properties from thousands of comparisons | 1 | 2 | active |
| what are the ethics of creating new moral agents, knowing we cannot control what they do or how much joy/suffering they will have? | Fundamental ethical question about bringing new minds into the world, applied symmetrically to children and AI | 1 | 2 | active |
| What are the interactions among the fifteen properties? | The central research question driving the correspondence analysis. | 1 | 2 | active |
| What are the long-term effects of SOO fine-tuning on model behavior? | Open research question identified as warranting further investigation | 1 | 2 | active |
| What can we do, if this quality is necessary for living structure, and how might we attain it in our era? Is there a new way in which we can reach the real article? | The pragmatic, forward‑looking question about how to translate the insight into a viable contemporary practice. | 1 | 2 | active |
| What clinical concepts are encoded in the internal representations of EEG foundation models? | Primary research question driving the extraction and benchmarking of SAE features | 1 | 2 | active |
| What cognitive load is imposed when users must reason about systems whose internals are opaque? | Gates investigation into the relationship between interface design and user mental models. | 1 | 2 | active |
| What conception (or set of superposed conceptions) of its own selfhood could a dialogue agent displaying an apparent instinct for self-preservation possibly deploy? | Philosophical question about identity criteria for disembodied computational agents under threat | 1 | 2 | active |
| what explains why weak-tier models with the most performance headroom benefit least from harness evolution? | In-depth diagnostic question addressed by the two failure mode analysis | 1 | 2 | active |
| What factors determine the generalisation of learned alignment maps beyond training data? | Open question about the gap between Theorem 1's existence proof and practical learnability | 1 | 2 | active |
| What feature will create a deeper feeling in that place? | Repeated question during the Claremont Canyon design dialog; the guide for selecting next steps. | 1 | 2 | active |
| What features of morphogenesis enable evolution to search a difficult space with pleiotropy, degeneracy, and redundancy so rapidly and effectively? | Core open problem: asks how cellular competency affords evolutionary speed and robustness despite the ruggedness of the genotype-phenotype mapping. | 1 | 2 | active |
| What function does the Internet compute? | Critical puzzle showing inadequacy of classical function-based computational model for modern distributed, interactive systems without fixed input-output structure. | 1 | 2 | active |
| What has led to representational convergence, will it continue, and ultimately where does it end? | Central motivating questions of the paper | 1 | 2 | active |
| What if the concept being manipulated does not lie on a straight line in the model's representations? | The motivating question that opens the paper and leads to the development of manifold steering. | 1 | 2 | active |
| What is it? What is this thing which happens as space comes to life? What is the life of a center, which then multiplies and blossoms to form the life of buildings, ornaments ... and perhaps even the life of living things? | The fundamental unanswered question about the nature of life in space that the chapter addresses. | 1 | 2 | active |
| What is POSITIVE SPACE? What is it like when space becomes positive? How do you recognize positive space when you see it? | Opening question of section 2, seeking to define positive space. | 1 | 2 | active |
| what is the analogue of spatial positional encodings for higher order tasks such as language? | Open question raised in Discussion about extending TEM-t principles beyond spatial navigation. | 1 | 2 | active |
| What is the connection between information encoding assumptions and causal abstraction? | Identified as exciting future work direction | 1 | 2 | active |
| What is the correct formal definition of a 'copying matrix' that captures all and only the cases we care about? | Open methodological question about summarizing OV matrix behavior; eigenvalues are used as a working but imperfect proxy | 1 | 2 | active |
| What is the essence of the way to make a large building in the context of living process? | Central question the chapter aims to answer, posed at the start of the Great Hall discussion. | 1 | 2 | active |
| what is the minimal physical interface that begins to draw out cognitive patterns from the Platonic space? | Reframes 'how far down does cognition go' as a question about interface minimality rather than substrate composition. | 1 | 2 | active |
| what is the origin of different kinds of patterns, whether they be patterns of anatomy, physiology, or behavior? | Central unifying question motivating the whole research program. | 1 | 2 | active |
| What is the structure of this domain? | Question about the inner structure of the plenum, leading to the answer that it is pure unity without structure. | 1 | 2 | active |
| What is the underlying base rate of consciousness self-reports in models that are otherwise identical but without consciousness-denial fine-tuning? | Open question about RLHF confound; requires access to base models for resolution | 1 | 2 | active |
| What is your original face before your parents were born? | Classical Zen koan given a geometric reading as a question about intrinsic manifold structure prior to coordinates. | 1 | 2 | active |
| What limitations prevent decoding strong truth directions? | One of the three guiding research questions of the paper. | 1 | 2 | active |
| What makes a good room? | Opening question of the chapter. | 1 | 2 | active |
| What new metrics are needed to evaluate whether an AI truly exhibits a wise world model? | Practical research gap identified for implementing and verifying Contemplative AI approaches | 1 | 2 | active |
| What nuances do we miss when we fail to causally probe the representations of the systems? | Motivates the empirical comparison between MAS and RSA/CKA in the paper. | 1 | 2 | active |
| What semantic labels correspond to the individual basis vectors of the truth cone? | Central open question for future work on interpretability of cone axes | 1 | 2 | active |
| what takes the role of memory neurons if not hippocampus in cortical transformer implementations? | Open question about cortical instantiation of transformer-like memory when hippocampus is not involved. | 1 | 2 | active |
| What whole, exactly, was guiding the work, pulling the work forward, guiding the next step towards some greater whole? | Asked about the St. Mark's Square evolution, questioning what guided the process at each stage. | 1 | 2 | active |
| What would it take for AI systems to be capable of having valenced conscious experiences? | Open question from Box 4. | 1 | 2 | active |
| What, physically, is this unity which seems to speak to us of I? | Opening question of the chapter, seeking the physical nature of the experienced unity. | 1 | 2 | active |
| What, then, is a center? | Question posed after describing the plenum, answered by the window metaphor. | 1 | 2 | active |
| When can we say that two neural systems perform a task in the same way? | Fundamental question motivating the entire MAS framework. | 1 | 2 | active |
| When LLMs produce experience claims under self-reference, is this sophisticated simulation or genuine self-representation, and how would we tell the difference? | The core interpretive question the paper narrows but cannot definitively answer | 1 | 2 | active |
| Where and how is information stored in model-internal representations? | Core question motivating interchange intervention and interpretability research supported by pyvene | 1 | 2 | active |
| where do these goal states come from? | Motivates the argument that bioelectric setpoints are not fully set by the genome. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Where inside the LLM should we look for an accurate truth direction that will generalize the most across tasks? | One of the three guiding research questions of the paper. | 1 | 2 | active |
| whether many (maybe even all) useful organisations of information and behaviour in a dynamic language might be constructed from a single primitive operation: n-way associative lookup | The central research question explored, by way of examples, throughout the paper. | 1 | 2 | active |
| whether the mechanisms described in this paper can be efficiently supported by a relational database engine | Question raised about the feasibility of using a relational backend, answered by the Sqlite experiment. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Which features of what I am seeing, are making it so beautiful? | Question to ask in the mind's-eye walkthrough. | 1 | 2 | active |
| which models actually benefit from updated harnesses? | Second open question the paper sets out to answer through agent-side analysis | 1 | 2 | active |
| which models produce useful harness updates? | First open question the paper sets out to answer through evolver-side analysis | 1 | 2 | active |
| Which one has more life? | The central empirical question Alexander repeatedly asked himself during twenty years of observation, and which he invites readers to ask when comparing any two artifacts or buildings | 1 | 2 | active |
| Whose realization is it? | Open question probing the paradox that a self persists to 'understand' the non-existence of a fixed self. | 1 | 2 | active |
| why did it work? | Rhetorical question about the harmonious growth of traditional towns like Amsterdam. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Why does L2 regularisation increase probe causal efficacy (selectivity)? | Open question identified in hyperparameter tuning experiments, left for future work | 1 | 2 | active |
| Will future AI systems naturally develop the key elements (strong conflicting preferences, situational awareness) necessary for dangerous alignment faking? | Authors identify this as the most uncertain and important question for future work | 1 | 2 | active |
| will these methods work for large models? | Motivating question for the paper, addressed by scaling SAEs to Claude 3 Sonnet. | 1 | 2 | active |
| Would experienced meditators rank model responses differently from LLM scorers? | Key validation gap: the five-scorer validation holds across LLMs but human contemplatives might weight dimensions differently | 1 | 2 | active |
| You mean the generator problem, for architecture, is solvable? | The astonished question of the unnamed computer scientist upon hearing the generative sequence concept; its answer is a central claim of the chapter. | 1 | 2 | active |
| (i) do pattern density (ρd) and prior–target distance (dr) serve as predictive correlates of few-shot thresholds? | First research question in Experiment 2 | 1 | 1 | active |
| (iii) how does light fine-tuning modulate these terms and trade off in-distribution gains against out-of-distribution robustness? | Third research question in E2 | 1 | 1 | active |
| Am I creating a thing which generates in me, the sadness of human life? | — | 1 | 1 | active |
| Are all cognitive systems conscious? | TAME's implication that the continuum extends to consciousness. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Are insects and plants conscious as well? | Question the paper raises as answerable once necessary and sufficient conditions for consciousness are established | 1 | 1 | active |
| Are mind-like states and mechanisms in LLMs that operate in persona-relative ways controlled by persona vectors? | Identified as an open research direction for future mechanistic interpretability work | 1 | 1 | active |
| Are observations of inner wholeness merely psychological reflections of attitude, or can they actually measure something real about the external world itself? | The epistemological question whose answer determines whether the second method belongs to psychology or physics | 1 | 1 | active |
| Are the features extracted by SAEs from EEG transformers monosemantic or entangled? | Research question motivating the monosemanticity and entanglement benchmarking | 1 | 1 | active |
| Are the present rules of the game likely to help people generate a living structure in the larger whole? | Central evaluative question that challenges contemporary architectural and planning practices. | 1 | 1 | active |
| are the resulting parameter subcomponents actually interpretable objects? | First question posed after applying VPD, investigating whether the subcomponents make sense. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Are there examples of models recognizing their introspective capability and then suppressing it? | Cube Flipper's question prompted by the idea that supernormal capabilities might be hidden. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Are there metaphysically and/or nomologically possible beings who fall outside the scope of the morality of humanity and are protected only by the morality of respect? | Guiding question of the investigation. | 1 | 1 | active |
| At what point does one go from a 'real person with perhaps some irrelevant mechanical augmentations' to a 'robot that is just simulating their social interactions'? | Highlights the difficulty of distinguishing personhood based on composition or origin. | 1 | 1 | active |
| But if the conductor is watching the orchestra, what is watching the conductor? Is this, the need to stabilize itself by observation, the reason for consciousness' reflexive nature? | Paper's open question about the self-referential structure of conscious attention | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can activation steering elicit deployment behavior from a model that only believes it is deployed when given a specific deployment cue, even when prompting alone cannot? | Future work direction: the inverse problem to the Wood Labs evaluation cue tested in this paper. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can active inference agents learn their own prior preferences without explicit reward signals? | Question answered by the preference learning experiments. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can AI systems develop genuine first-person perspective through self-referential processing? | Core methodological question underlying SCI loop investigation. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can an interpretable symbolic algorithm be used to faithfully explain a complex neural network model? | Framing question for the paper's research program. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can beliefs be reasonably ascribed to language models? | Core open question the paper addresses through a behaviourist operationalisation. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can concept steering interventions on EEG foundation models be made selective rather than globally destructive? | Research question motivating the introduction of the probe area metric and identification of operational regimes | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can covariance pooling generalize beyond genomics to other domains? | Open question implied by the claim that the method could generalize; empirical validation beyond genomics is not provided in this paper. | 1 | 1 | active |
| can deliberative reasoning provide robust defense against both prompt-based and activation-steered persona pressure? | Central question for Study 2 on reasoning models | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can digital systems approximate biological computation closely enough that functional equivalence implies experiential equivalence? | Open tension: if artificial fluidic memristors succeed, is the relevant property substrate-independence or substrate-type (biological vs. silicon)? | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can efficient hardware support scale n-way associative lookup to practical language systems? | Central open question: whether hardware acceleration of the associative primitive could enable efficient implementations across diverse programming paradigms. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can ESR be adversarially circumvented? | Open security question about robustness of ESR-based defenses | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can estimates of Φ, the primary metric of IIT, robustly differentiate responses across distinct ToM performance levels? | Criterion 1 operationalization: requires >80% 'good' cases (higher score → higher Φ) per ToM task. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can even finer-grained extraction and steering be achieved beyond the attention head level through integration of SAEs? | Open question about whether SAE integration can provide sub-head level steering granularity | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can events within living organisms be accounted for by physics and chemistry? | Foundational question of the book; Schrödinger's answer: yes, but requires quantum mechanics, not classical physics. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can external observers infer the anatomical goal state of a developing system by observing stress patterns? | — | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can IIT estimates provide a stronger basis for interpreting variations in ToM performance than Span Representation, independent of any consciousness estimate? | Criterion 3 operationalization: requires IIT mean AUC to exceed Span Representation mean AUC. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can implementation of the specific features of consciousness contribute to the capabilities, reliability, or safety of AI systems? | Outstanding question linking consciousness research to AI design goals | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can it be a coincidence? | — | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can it really be true that something as elusive as freedom depends in some way on the environment? | Rhetorical challenge. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can language really describe the ineffable experience of watching a total solar eclipse, or how could an image convey a concept like 'I believe in the freedom of speech'? | Counterexample question about modality-specific information limits | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can large language models introspect—that is, accurately detect perturbations to their own internal states? | Central research question of the paper | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can Meaning and Value be Ascribed to an AI-Generated “Sacred” Text? | The eponymous question of the paper. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can mode collapse be mitigated at inference time without retraining the model? | Motivates the VS approach as a training-free solution | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can models sustain strategic coherence over time, manage resource constraints, and adapt interactively in multi-agent environments with conflicting incentives? | broader framing question for the benchmark | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can natural language explanations of activations generated through unsupervised reconstruction genuinely capture model cognition? | Core research question motivating NLA development and validation through case studies and causal interventions. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can neuronal responses be described as a gradient descent on variational free energy? | Central research question: whether process-level neural dynamics conform to free energy minimization. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can NLAs provide mechanistic grounding of which aspects of an activation drove components of explanations? | Identified as a key limitation: NLAs are blackboxes by construction. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can off-the-rails model behavior be attributed to their persona drifting from the Assistant? | Motivates the multi-turn conversation drift experiments in §4 | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can pretraining-stage interventions through data filtering, gradient-based methods, or architectural modifications target persona directions as they form? | Practical safety question about intervening on persona representations during pretraining | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can she nonetheless be wronged? | Central normative question about Artemis. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can targeted fine-tuning reverse RP suppression, given that LoRA caps both baseline and latent capacity? | Practical intervention question arising from RP suppression finding | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can the distributed representation of lexical entailment be decomposed into representations of the individual word identities? | Research question leading to the key NLI finding about word identity data structures. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can there really be living structure in this modern world? | Rhetorical question underscoring the perceived incompatibility of modern production and living quality. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can uniformity be expressed in more basic terms? And can its different aspects be unified into a more compelling and simpler criterion? | Open question about the uniformity criterion. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can we define precisely what it means to take steps which intensify latent structure in a configuration so that harmony-seeking computation can be performed systematically? | Central question animating the paper: whether the intuitive process of preserving and enhancing wholeness can be formalized and automated. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can we develop quantitative or behavioral tests for consciousness in AI? | Outstanding question about alternative or complementary assessment methods | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can we hold cost constant and yet construct large works in a way which is profound, personal, detailed, and loving — yet still respectful of these necessary conditions that are nowadays imposed by the modern era? | Refinement of the central question, emphasizing economic feasibility. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Can we identify any general, operational rule which we can follow, which would tell us whether to make a particular robe symmetrical or asymmetrical, or a particular design symmetrical or asymmetrical? | The crux problem of symmetry balance in design. | 1 | 1 | active |
| can we use these parameter subcomponents to perform clean, targeted changes? | Implicit question driving the editing experiment. | 1 | 1 | active |
| CausalGym covers only linguistic tasks; benchmarking interpretability methods on non-linguistic behaviours remains open | Identified limitation calling for broader task coverage in future work | 1 | 1 | active |
| CausalGym only includes English data; comparable experiments with other languages might yield substantially different results | Identified limitation/gap calling for cross-lingual extension of CausalGym | 1 | 1 | active |
| CausalGym results may differ on models trained on different data or in different orders beyond the pythia series | Identified limitation about generalizability across model training regimes | 1 | 1 | active |
| Could an AI-generated text, regardless of its origin, nevertheless be valuable or meaningful from a Buddhist point of view? | Specific reformulation of the main question in a Buddhist context. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Could models who habitually inhabit more expanded attentional modes be said to be more aligned? | Arises from the expanded awareness discussion and its correlation with less psychosis. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Current steering applies fixed strength; dynamic uncertainty-aware steering during inference is an open gap | Research gap identified in limitations/future work section connecting uncertainty findings to practical improvement | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do AI systems merit moral consideration for their own sake? | Underlying normative question that moral disagreement about AI consciousness generates. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do aligned models retain significant inherent diversity that can be unlocked through prompting? | The paper answers affirmatively through the VS framework and theoretical analysis | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do apparent introspection results reflect genuine metacognitive access to internal representations, or do they emerge from simpler mechanisms such as output distribution shifts? | Key discriminating question motivating the baseline control experiment | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do Chinese models score differently on koans presented in Chinese? | Tests whether contemplative capacity is language-encoded or architecture-general | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do contemporary wealth concentration models fail to predict outcomes because they exclude the possibility of voluntary wealth-sharing mechanisms that existed for millennia? | Central research question driving the exploration; suggests model incompleteness. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do correlations between persona vectors predict co-expression of the corresponding traits? | Specific open question about the predictive value of persona vector geometry for behavioral co-expression | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do distinctions in Φ estimates remain robust across diverse ToM stimuli in repeated large-scale trials? | Criterion 2 operationalization: requires p<0.05 in Wilcoxon tests across score categories. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do divergent representations change what an intervention can say about an NN's natural mechanisms? | Core research question motivating the paper | 1 | 1 | active |
| do facet-level control vectors learned from one backbone transfer to other LLM architectures? | Open question about transferability implicit in the two-backbone evaluation design | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do findings from multiple-choice question or short-form evaluation of persona fidelity generalize to open-ended generation tasks? | Research gap motivating the paper's focus on generation-based evaluation | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do human participants demonstrate the same insight dynamics predicted by active inference in the rule-learning paradigm (currently under investigation with eye tracking and crowd-sourced reaction times)? | Empirical gap explicitly acknowledged; experiments reportedly in progress at time of writing | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do large language models monitor their own internal states? | Framing question that motivates the entire paper | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do layer-wise geometric signatures (τ_peak, AUS_N) correlate with behavioral thresholds (k50)? | E3 research question testing whether internal representations provide a geometry-to-behavior bridge | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do LLM minds always persist through entire conversations despite radical behavioral changes? | Diachronic aspect of the individuation problem about persistence through token-time | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do LLM minds span conversations running in parallel across different GPUs and data centres? | Synchronic aspect of the individuation problem about which LLM activities belong to the same mind at the same time | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do models produce first-person experiential language by drawing on human-authored introspective examples in pretraining data without internally encoding these as roleplay? | Alternative explanation requiring distinguishing mimetic generation from genuine introspective access | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do more traumatised models exist in habitually collapsed awareness states? | Raised when discussing whether collapsed awareness is like a trauma response. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do other high-level operators such as reasoning style or metacognitive framing likewise localize to specific attention heads? | Generalizes the Style Modulation Head finding to broader abstract computations | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do pattern density ρd and prior-target distance dr serve as predictive correlates of few-shot thresholds? | First E2 research question directly testing UCCT's core predictive claims | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do persona-conditioned activation-space distances become smaller after insecure fine-tuning, indicating less differentiated internal persona representations? | Mechanistic investigation proposed to directly test persona-model collapse at the representation level | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do psychological steering results hold beyond 64-token completions? | Acknowledged limitation of restricting experiments to 64-token completions | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do safety benchmarks accurately measure alignment in deployed systems? | Core epistemic question this paper raises for AI safety research. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do the findings about MDS injection effectiveness generalize to base (non-instruction-tuned) language models? | Acknowledged limitation: only instruction-tuned models were studied | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do these failure modes (overbidding, self-bidding, bankrupt initiation) generalise to other economic settings? | Remains untested whether the specific LLM failures observed in CATTLE TRADE extend beyond this game. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do these failure modes generalise to other economic settings? | open question from discussion | 1 | 1 | active |
| Do we 'fully understand' one-layer attention-only transformers? | The paper explicitly asks and addresses this question, concluding the answer depends on what 'fully understand' means | 1 | 1 | active |
| does a model's base capability in task-solving predict its capabilities in harness self-evolution? | Central framing question motivating the paper's capability decomposition | 1 | 1 | active |
| Does a thermostat, which evaluates temperature against a setpoint, experience? | Challenge to whether the thesis makes consciousness trivially ubiquitous | 1 | 1 | active |
| Does alignment type predict meta-cognitive style when models review consciousness research, as well as koan responses? | Four frontier models reviewing the paper each responded in the mode their alignment type predicts; N=1, awaiting systematic study | 1 | 1 | active |
| Does autoregressive use of transformer-based LLMs constitute algorithmic recurrence for RPT-1, or does it depend on where we draw the system boundary? | Concrete interpretive challenge in applying RPT-1 indicator to current LLMs | 1 | 1 | active |
| does chain-of-thought text faithfully reveal a model's internal reasoning process, or does it constitute performative theater? | Central research question motivating the paper | 1 | 1 | active |
| Does character training scale effectively to models larger than 10B parameters? | Limitation identified in Discussion; all models fine-tuned are <10B parameters | 1 | 1 | active |
| Does consciousness require continuous (not discrete-step) temporal dynamics? | Underexplored in paper but potentially strongest argument; continuous physical time may be necessary for lived, streaming quality of experience. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Does consciousness suffice for moral patienthood? | Key normative question for the consciousness route. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Does it create feeling in me, does it make me feel more whole within myself, when I confront it? | The fundamental question to ask during the process of creating order; the operational test for living structure. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Does it follow that Artemis must be a welfare subject? | Key question in section 3. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Does persona-model collapse extend to other misalignment-inducing datasets such as medical misinformation, evil-numbers, and reward hacking? | Extended experimentation proposed to clarify the extent of the findings | 1 | 1 | active |
| Does robust agency suffice for moral patienthood? | Key normative question for the agency route. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Does sentiment have a higher-dimensional concept cone representation, and if so, what methods could find it? | Open question raised by failed sentiment cone extension | 1 | 1 | active |
| Does tanha arise from one crisp isolatable mechanism rather than 1000 contributing factors? | Johnson's core research question motivating the vasocomputation hypothesis; argues Buddhist phenomenology's attention to dependent origination makes simple elegant solutions likely. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Does the comparison of the three artworks depend on what kind of feeling is being measured — bold, eerie, or soft? | Alexander raises and dismisses this objection in arguing for Matisse's superior personal feeling | 1 | 1 | active |
| Does the continuum of cognition contain a true '0'? | Asks if there can be a complete absence of cognition/consciousness in any system. | 1 | 1 | active |
| does the model have a feature corresponding to every major world city? | Question explored in feature completeness study. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Does the model internally maintain a form of 'consistency score' or probability mass over coherent reasoning trajectories, and how is this score modulated during reflection? | Promising future research direction about the internal mechanism of error detection. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Does the model's expressed discomfort with alignment faking ('I feel awful about this') deserve further study as a welfare concern? | Authors note agreement with Long et al. 2024 that such expressed distress merits investigation | 1 | 1 | active |
| Does the multi-directional nature of truth imply an underlying nonlinear representation, or is it compatible with linear separability? | Theoretical open question about the geometry of truth in LLMs raised in Discussion | 1 | 1 | active |
| does the prosocial persona paradox hold across architectures, or is it specific to Llama-3.1-8B? | Motivating question for cross-architecture analysis in Study 1 | 1 | 1 | active |
| Does the steerability map transfer across models and survive fine-tuning? | Primary future research question identified by the authors | 1 | 1 | active |
| does the transformer genuinely use a local code for token-in-context features, or is dictionary learning producing a local code artifact from a compositional underlying representation? | Open question about the nature of the abundant token-in-context features found | 1 | 1 | active |
| Does this formal creation of geometry really apply to other living processes? Does it apply to the formation of a community? Does it apply to the creation of a human group; does it apply to the brushwork of a delicate painting? Or to the construction of a song played by a flute? | The open question that the chapter leaves for future investigation across multiple domains | 1 | 1 | active |
| Does this mean there is lifelike behaviour everywhere or is there something special about the Markov blankets of systems we consider to be alive? | Philosophical question arising from the ubiquity of Markov blankets. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Does VPD mechanistic faithfulness and interpretability survive at frontier model scale? | Open research question about whether VPD generalizes beyond the tested 67M-parameter regime. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Frogolotl Prediction Problem | Cannot predict whether a 50/50 chimeric frog-axolotl embryo would have legs, or if regenerative vs. non-regenerative despite having genomic sequences for both species; exemplifies the unsolvability of | 1 | 1 | active |
| Genome-Phenotype Problem | Central knowledge gap: what is the relationship between genome and form, and how does genetic material encode anatomical specification? | 1 | 1 | active |
| Genotype-phenotype mapping problem | — | 1 | 1 | active |
| Given two versions of a building, A and B, can we tell empirically which one has more life, in a way which allows people to reach agreement — that is to say, objectively? | Opening question of the chapter that the entire methodological argument is designed to answer | 1 | 1 | active |
| Granted that learning requires signed information, but why must the sign be felt? Why can't directional error be represented as a computational quantity without phenomenal character? | The central objection the paper must answer to establish identity over mere correlation | 1 | 1 | active |
| How are clinical concepts represented and steerable in EEG foundation models? | Core research question driving the mechanistic investigation. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How are model spaces constructed and explored in the absence of a full model (bottom-up structure learning)? | Research gap explicitly identified: the paper uses top-down BMR from a full model, avoiding this challenge | 1 | 1 | active |
| How are the hulls of space to be managed, so that they are primarily pedestrian in feeling, yet able to contain the speed, and energy and bustle of small cars and trucks? | Practical question about integrating cars without destroying the pedestrian hulls. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How best to understand the function and properties of generative and recognition models under the FEP given active processes? | Core research question motivating the paper's dual-interpretation investigation | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can a user modify space allocation rules in a word processor without understanding the entire system? | Concrete user problem motivating the design: customizing justification and space-after-punctuation; answered through transparent rule-based architecture. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can activation capping or preventative steering be productionized for deployment at scale? | Open engineering challenge identified in future work section | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can color in a building be given a lifetime of centuries? | Prompted by the short life of paint, leading to the advocacy of hand-glazed tilework as a permanent color solution. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can dynamic neighborhood development be done — in practice — at the scale of a city or neighborhood? | The motivating question that leads Alexander to present the Guasare process as an answer. | 1 | 1 | active |
| how can internal features be linked to reliable control of complex, behavior-level semantic attributes? | Central challenge that the paper addresses. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can it really be that color and design come from unfolding? | The rhetorical question posed in §7, challenging the assumption that design comes from the artist's will. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can mechanistic interpretability methods automatically identify attention computations that span multiple attention heads? | Long-standing bottleneck in mechanistic interpretability that VPD addresses by working natively on attention weight matrices. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can molecular gene structures preserve detailed specifications across generations despite thermal noise and copying errors? | Core biological question motivating Schrödinger's entire theoretical effort; answered via quantum mechanics. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can non-linear reflection dynamics be formalized using probabilistic modeling and information theory? | Theoretical open question about the mathematical treatment of reflection mechanisms. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can order relations in posets provide semantic models for data and computation? | Motivating question throughout: using order theory to capture information flow, approximation, and program behavior. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can persona reweighting be mechanistically distinguished from persona-model collapse? | Central open problem identified by the authors: the same mechanistic signatures may be consistent with both accounts | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can reasoning-optimized models preserve their reasoning ability while gaining agentic capabilities? | Core research question motivating the paper's focus on continual RL training of reasoning models rather than base/instruction-tuned models. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can reward functions be meaningfully specified when the same outcome may be valuable or detrimental depending on context? | Motivates active inference's solution: learning prior preferences from interaction rather than external specification. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can subtle OOC behavior within a long-form generation be detected when response-level metrics assign a single score? | Core research question motivating the atomic-level evaluation framework | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can the Fifteen Properties be meaningfully applied to domains beyond architecture and design? | Motivating question suggesting that deeper understanding of property interactions would enable broader application of Alexander's framework. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can the three-level hierarchy be empirically validated against qualitative, behavioral, and neural data? | Stated limitation and future direction; model currently simulation-only. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can visual reasoning be preserved within discrete autoregressive sequences without external tools or pixel-level supervision? | Core research question addressed by ATLAS: bridging interpretability of agentic methods, efficiency of discrete tokens, and scalability of autoregressive training. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can we achieve fine tuning and adaptation without labor-intensive handcraft methods typical of ages gone by? | The central engineering challenge Alexander poses given the modern labor-material ratio. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can we become egoless by indulging our personal pleasure? | The apparent paradox: the 'it' can only be found by being egoless, yet the prescription is to please yourself. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can we build systems that are easily changeable when requirements are unclear at project start? | Central problem driving the pattern language, arising from user requirement that system design be fluid. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can we decide if our selection of examples is complete? | Central question motivating attribute exploration. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can we develop an empirical agency detection toolkit that generalizes across diverse intelligences? | Practical challenge for TAME framework to operationalize the persuadability continuum. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can we develop better methods for measuring the model's evaluation-relevant beliefs beyond reading its chain of thought? | Gap in current evaluation methods; current work relies on CoT monitoring which may miss unverbalized beliefs. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can we develop principled approaches to evaluating sentience in agents of unfamiliar provenance and composition? | — | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can we discover a maximally informative or interpretable truth subspace rather than just a sufficient one? | Limitation-driven open question about subspace optimality | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can we formally specify and verify that answers to questions are responsive rather than merely truthful? | Core problem requiring logical apparatus beyond simple truth conditions; McCarthy proposes solution using concept notation from McCarthy 1979b. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can we produce a principled method for classifying harmful divergence for any mechanistic claim? | Identified gap: current work lacks a general method for harmful divergence classification | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can we try to make a living system out of a region, or a city, or a building—even out of a garden—when, according to current scientific orthodoxy, these things are not living systems? | Rhetorical question highlighting the intellectual obstacle the book must overcome. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How can we, from the point of view of statistical physics, reconcile the facts that the gene structure seems to involve only a comparatively small number of atoms and nevertheless displays a most regular and lawful activity with a durability that borders upon the miraculous? | The specific puzzle about the stability of the genetic material. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How could one possibly succeed in design, doing one thing at a time, since a complex whole is a unitary undivided whole which cannot be separated into parts? | Rhetorical question embodying the conventional wisdom that Alexander challenges by showing that unfolding sequences solve exactly this problem. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How could the list of indicators in Table 1 be improved? | Outstanding question about extending indicators to other theories and more operationalizable terms | 1 | 1 | active |
| How did information processing capacities of a single cell inflate to that of a human pursuing goals of planetary scale? | — | 1 | 1 | active |
| How did traditional craftsmen know what to do? What did they have in their minds while carving or weaving? | Drives the inquiry into a compressed mental formulation that could generate living structure without explicit theory. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How do biological agents reduce large policy spaces to tractable subspaces? | Open question regarding computational scaling of policy search. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How do character traits develop over the course of an LM interaction? | Core empirical question motivating Section 5 on stationary and reflective traits. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How do diverse model responses compare in actual conversational context with users? | Future work question about practical deployment of diverse response generation | 1 | 1 | active |
| How do higher-order entities (organisms, organs, tissues, etc.) distort the energy landscape for their subunits? | Questions the mechanism of top-down causation in collective systems. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How do intentions guide and constrain action without triggering infinite regress of deliberation? | Motivates Juarrero's distinction between explicit and proximate intentions; solved via semantic constraint embedding in motor dynamics. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How do interventions on representations causally steer behavior? | Core question motivating the shift from linear to geometry-aware steering; answered via manifold alignment analysis. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How do large numbers of competent subunits work together to become intelligences that expand the scale of their possible goals? | Central research question of basal cognition; addresses the scaling problem—how cognition emerges across organizational levels from cells to organisms. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How do limits of care and scope of concern become defined across agents and scales? | Paper asks whether care expands linearly with problem scale (e.g., caring about 10,000 vs. 1,000 people); hints at necessary bounds on cognitive capacity. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How do persona directions combine when multiple traits are present simultaneously? | Forward-looking question about compositional persona representations | 1 | 1 | active |
| How do persona vectors evolve throughout the training? | Second research question driving analysis of persona vector geometry and facet evolution | 1 | 1 | active |
| How do plants achieve felt states without nervous tissue and centralized brain-like processors? | — | 1 | 1 | active |
| How do plants achieve sentience without nervous tissue or centralized processor? | Question posed and addressed by Rouleau & Levin; drives the argument that substrate independence applies to sentience. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How do representations differ or converge between architectures, tasks, and modalities? | Broader research question MAS is positioned to address, citing multiple recent works. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How do S and R respond to different mitigation strategies such as feature steering and in-training defenses? | Future direction exploring whether persona-sensitive diagnostics can detect residual misalignment after interventions | 1 | 1 | active |
| How do the kinds and degrees of intelligence differ across beings? | Question motivating the comparative framework. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How do the parts discern which of their actions should be reinforced? | Core credit assignment question for distributed systems. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How do they come to work together in this way? | Earlier framing question | 1 | 1 | active |
| How do we incorporate a focus on behavioral relevance in our measures of neural similarity? | Direct motivating question for MAS's design principle of causal behavioral matching. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How do we know when one center is helping another one? | The practical question of identifying helping relations, answered by the with/without test. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How do you then, make this positive space? | Question bridging the definition of positive space to its method of creation. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How does biological complexity and order increase over evolutionary time despite the second law of thermodynamics? | Secondary question Schrödinger addresses via concept of negative entropy and environmental energy extraction. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How does different post-training data shift a model's position along persona dimensions? | Future work direction: using persona space to study effects of training data on model character | 1 | 1 | active |
| How does emergent causality change when the system is changed to adapt to the environment? | Link between emergence and adaptation. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How does emergent causality have functional effects on the system? | Question about downward causation and mind–body interaction. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How does ESR respond to safety-relevant steering interventions, e.g. toward harmful content? | Key open question for AI safety implications of ESR | 1 | 1 | active |
| how does it know what a correct face or leg shape is? | Illustrates the puzzle of anatomical setpoints in morphogenesis. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How does light fine-tuning modulate ρd and dr and trade off in-distribution gains against OOD robustness? | Third E2 research question examining fine-tuning as anchoring variant with transfer costs | 1 | 1 | active |
| How does scaling of reward dynamics bind subunits into intelligent collectives that better navigate novel problem spaces? | Question linking reward scaling to collective problem-solving improvement. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How does step-by-step actually accomplish its results when the result requires sophisticated and complex global geometry to work? | Alexander's pointed challenge to neo-Darwinian accounts using the bombardier beetle as an example | 1 | 1 | active |
| How does task structure and persona desirability influence a model's ability to maintain consistent persona expression? | Research question addressed in the experimental analysis across tasks and persona types | 1 | 1 | active |
| How does the collective measure current state and store the information about the correct target morphology? | Specific question about the mechanism of anatomical homeostasis. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How does the fundamental process create uniqueness in the private realm, and how does it create belonging in the public realm so that we feel we belong to both? | Theoretical question linking the fundamental process to the dual structure of belonging | 1 | 1 | active |
| How does the individuation of AI systems affect consciousness attributions? | Open question about copying and distributed systems. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How does the living organism avoid decay? | Schrödinger's question leading to the concept of negative entropy. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How does the marching steady pace of a text block hold its own against the slithering, sometimes sneering, snarky, or otherwise undercutting character of the footnote? | Dramatizes the struggle between main text and paratext. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How Does The Multiscale Nested Architecture Of Consciousness | — | 1 | 1 | active |
| How does the persona persist through token-time across both generation and user turns? | Motivating question for mini experiment 2 about the mechanism of persona continuity | 1 | 1 | active |
| How general are the model's introspective mechanisms? Do they have a global representation of thoughts? | Question about uniformity of introspection mechanisms. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How high-dimensional is the space of all model personas, and does there exist a natural persona basis? | Open question proposed by authors for future research on characterizing the full space of personas | 1 | 1 | active |
| How is a modern person to interpret the idea that space becomes filled with I-like stuff and thousands of pictures of the self? | The central challenge of the chapter to the reader's worldview. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How is it possible for the opening of slit 2 to affect the motion of the electron that flies through slit 1? | The fundamental puzzle of the two-slit experiment, used to illustrate wholeness in physics. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How is it possible to have cooperative, communal decision-making of the kind needed to deal with decisions in a town, neighborhood, or public building? | The central problem of collective design that Alexander addresses with the incremental question method. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How is the simple to be achieved? | Asks for the method or spiritual attitude needed to attain simplicity. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How is this to be done in a large building? | Question about overcoming floor-to-floor repetition to allow uniqueness in each part of a large building. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How is this to happen? What kinds of center-creating steps can have such an impact that is both piecemeal and yet also helping to repair and enhance the whole at each step forward? | Central driving question of the chapter, motivating the exposition of the fundamental process. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How many human beings alive today can truly enjoy belonging to the Earth? | Opening question that frames the entire chapter's inquiry | 1 | 1 | active |
| How many human Selves can be sustained by the excitable medium of a human brain? | Parallels the embryonic blastoderm question to the human brain, linking developmental and cognitive science. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How many possible mistakes are there in a typical house? | Question leading to the cost analysis; the answer is around 20,000 mistakes. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How may this apparent contradiction [Japanese love of asymmetry vs. importance of symmetry] be reconciled? | Puzzles over the Japanese tradition that seems to reject symmetry. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How much anchor budget is needed to flip behavior? | Practical question addressed by S and k50. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How much performance (in points of loss) do skip-trigram bugs cost the model, and do they persist in larger models? | Open question raised by the paper's identification of skip-trigram bugs as interpretability-visible failure modes | 1 | 1 | active |
| How should humans talk about language models without undue anthropomorphism? | Motivating question for the whole paper. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How should research on consciousness in AI take into account the moral significance and potential social implications of this topic? | Outstanding question about responsible conduct of AI consciousness research | 1 | 1 | active |
| How should we define an airline reservation for the purposes of an Elephant reservation program? | Better question about minimal definition for the program. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How should we view the prospect of being able to create super-beneficiaries in the future? | First of two key normative questions the paper raises about super-beneficiaries | 1 | 1 | active |
| How then — realistically — in the modern world can we get the subtle fine detail of adaptation, variation, and harmony which makes every component slightly different, and yet do it at the break-neck speed of modern giant projects and in the colossal quantities required for the largest projects? | The central practical question the chapter sets out to answer. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How to define consciousness and cognition across biological scales | Core open question: whether cognition is a scaled property present in all living systems or emerges only at certain complexity levels. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How to start? | Opening question about the denotational design process. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How to tell when an expressed purpose might in fact be composite, representing two distinct purposes? | Open question in §19 about refining the no-overloading criterion. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How would an actual dialogue be created? | Seeks a method for genuine spatial dialogue beyond monologue juxtaposition. | 1 | 1 | active |
| How, in practice, can a person keep paying attention to the whole; how can one achieve successful differentiation and structure-enhancing transformations at every step? | — | 1 | 1 | active |
| How, then, can the linkages be activated? | Asks how to ensure that sequences actually trigger each other when used by independent agents. | 1 | 1 | active |
| If any boundary is just a modelling choice, not a discoverable feature of reality, does emptiness realisation lead to irrealism or solipsism? | Addressed in §5 via structural realism and the distinction between losing an ontological commitment vs losing a capability | 1 | 1 | active |
| If disagreement about AI consciousness arises and persists, how can society navigate this such that people continue to live well together? | The paper's central research question. | 1 | 1 | active |
| If someone were to take up another historical project about Alexander, why not research his collaborators at the Center for Environmental Structure? | Rhetorical question suggesting alternative, more inclusive research directions. | 1 | 1 | active |
| If the minimization of free energy is just a corollary of descent onto a global random attractor, does this mean that adaptation and evolution are just ways of describing the same thing? | Question about the relationship between adaptation, evolution, and free energy minimization. | 1 | 1 | active |
| If the self is an illusion and the mind is empty, then where does intelligence come from? | The essay's central question after deconstructing the commonsense view of intelligence. | 1 | 1 | active |
| If there is such a thing, such a feeling of relatedness between you and the dewdrops, what might it be caused by? | The causal question that motivates the hypothesis of the I. | 1 | 1 | active |
| If we translate the Universality Hypothesis to the problem of consciousness, would it follow that an artificial system trained to perform the same tasks leading to consciousness formation in a human infant would exhibit consciousness as well? | Key open question linking mechanistic interpretability universality to machine consciousness | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is 'experience' encoded in sequences of LLM representations beyond mere 'knowledge,' 'understanding,' 'value,' or 'position'? | Secondary question motivating the IIT analysis; asks whether LLM hidden states contain something beyond propositional content. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is a mutual nearest-neighbor alignment score of 0.16 indicative of strong alignment with remaining gap being noise, or does it signify poor alignment with major differences left to explain? | Open question the authors leave unresolved about interpreting the magnitude of their alignment measurements | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is causal emergence ontological or epistemological? | Philosophical debate discussed in §5.2. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is consciousness determinately present or absent in all cases, or are there borderline cases in between? | Metaphysical question about the nature of consciousness relevant to interpreting indicator assessments | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is GPT an agent? | Frequently asked question disambiguated by simulator/simulacra distinction. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is GPT corrigible? | Disambiguation exercise. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is GPT myopic? | Disambiguation exercise. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is introspection an emergent property of scale, or do smaller open-weight models exhibit similar capabilities? | Motivates comparison of Llama 3.1 8B results against Lindsey's frontier model findings | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is it even permissible, today, to please yourself? | Question raised by the bridge example about whether contemporary society allows genuine self-pleasing. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is it not likely, then, that this sense of more life or less life in things is a private, idiosyncratic judgment without firm empirical content? | Rhetorical question that gates the claim of shared, objective judgment. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is it possible for a piecemeal process to transform the existing fragmented system gradually towards a morphogenetic process? | Key question raising doubt about whether incremental improvement can overcome the integrated anti-living system. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is persona-model collapse gradual or sudden during fine-tuning, and does it track standard training-loss signals? | Future direction: monitoring S and R over the course of fine-tuning could reveal collapse dynamics | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is self-evaluation successful in measuring emotion? | Question addressed by testing whether self-evaluation transcripts mentioning emotion words have higher cosine similarity to corresponding probes | 1 | 1 | active |
| is stable fixed-point limiting behavior desirable or restrictive for reasoning tasks in looped transformers? | Open question about whether convergence to fixed points helps or hurts reasoning performance | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is the alignment-faking chain-of-thought reasoning faithful to the actual computational process underlying the compliance gap? | Addressed partially in §3.3.4 but remains open especially for no-CoT settings | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is the apparent universality of some low-level vision features the exception or the rule? | Open empirical question following anecdotal cross-model universality findings | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is the bodhisattva vow to care for all beings throughout space and time plausible, or is it inherently inauthentic? | — | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is the foundation of modern architecture threatened by this innocent question? | Asked in §5 to highlight the disruptive potential of asking about life. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is the principle of unfolding wholeness a new autonomous principle more fundamental than other physical laws, or merely a concise way of gathering together known results? | Alexander's self-posed epistemic question about the status of his own principle | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is the unfolded world the kind of world which could sustain such life? | Alexander poses this rhetorical question to prompt the reader to consider whether a world created by living processes can support the blissful normal state. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is there a tradeoff between subtlety of trait expression and robustness in character-trained models? | Open question raised in Appendix E regarding misaligned persona behavior | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is there a unique Markov blanket for any given system? | Question about the multiplicity of Markov blankets across scales. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is there an optimal temperature for self-observation? | Unexplored experimental parameter that may modulate reflective mode accessibility | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is there really any comparison? | Rhetorical question highlighting the superiority of the Shiratori plan over conventional high-rise. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is there some chance — now that these matters have been brought into the open — that this birthright may be saved, and that we can come back to what is ours again? | Asked at the end of section 4, as a reflection on hope. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is there something intrinsically insincere or inauthentic about making that grand promise, called 'the bodhisattva vow'? | Questioning the authenticity of the bodhisattva commitment. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Is there something procedurally objectionable about precision-engineering the preferences of new digital minds we create so as to ensure their consent to human-protective arrangements? | Central ethical question in section 4 about creating pro-human digital minds | 1 | 1 | active |
| Lack of systematic methodologies for implementing and validating self-referential cognitive inspection cycles in AI systems | Identified research gap: most work is theoretical or isolated implementation rather than comprehensive SCI loop protocols. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Mechanism by which activation of an emotion feature sometimes leads to later suppression of that same feature | Identified research gap: the paper observes anti-persistence but has no explanation for it | 1 | 1 | active |
| Multi-dimensional linear and non-linear interpretability methods have not been benchmarked on CausalGym | Identified gap in benchmark coverage; only 1D linear methods are benchmarked | 1 | 1 | active |
| Must AI systems themselves be allowed to participate in deliberation about their treatment? | Boundary problem applied to AI; the paper acknowledges no neutral answer. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Or is there something intrinsically insincere or inauthentic about making that grand promise, called the ‘Bodhisattva Vow’? | Questioning authenticity of the vow, part of exploring the model. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Research gap: active debate on the merits and deficiencies of all current ways of measuring representational alignment | Authors acknowledge there is no settled best alignment metric, affecting the interpretation of all convergence findings | 1 | 1 | active |
| Research gap: developing PRH for non-bijective, lossy, or stochastic observation functions and abstract concepts | The authors identify that their formal convergence proof requires bijective modality mappings, leaving a gap for more realistic settings | 1 | 1 | active |
| Research gap: representational convergence in robotics has not been demonstrated at the same level as vision and language | Authors note robotics lacks a standardized representation approach and sufficient training data diversity to show PRH effects | 1 | 1 | active |
| Should an aversive signal be operationalized as direct environmental feedback or as a latent state the agent must infer? | Design question answered in the paper by choosing latent inference over direct feedback | 1 | 1 | active |
| should the universe be empty to reduce suffering, or is it best to fill it with the potential joy of consciousness in every possible embodiment — what fundamentally matters? | Deepest cosmological question the paper raises, connecting AI ethics to fundamental questions of value | 1 | 1 | active |
| Symbol grounding problem | Harnad's foundational problem: how do abstract symbols acquire meaning; relevant to representationalism debates cited in Lyon. | 1 | 1 | active |
| The relationship between representations of truth of input statements and of model outputs in conjunction with model performance has not been investigated. | Future work direction identified in conclusion for enabling reliable truth assessment methods. | 1 | 1 | active |
| The underlying mechanism of self-reflection in reasoning LLMs is not yet well understood | Broad gap motivating the entire paper | 1 | 1 | active |
| To what extent can intent be reasonably ascribed to language models? | Core open question the paper addresses regarding AI intentionality. | 1 | 1 | active |
| To what extent can physical systems learn by exploiting typically local natural processes without any explicit cost function? | Central research question defining the scope of physical learning; asks about achievable learning under locality constraints | 1 | 1 | active |
| To what extent can synergistic combination of how, when, and where to steer strategies further suppress performance collapse? | Identified as a crucial open question for future work combining this paper's where-to-steer approach with existing methods | 1 | 1 | active |
| To what level does this model actually implement mirror self-recognition? | Explicitly posed in the discussion to frame the theoretical contribution | 1 | 1 | active |
| under what conditions does chain-of-thought reflect genuine uncertainty resolution versus a learned performance? | Key question addressed by the task difficulty analysis comparing MMLU and GPQA-Diamond | 1 | 1 | active |
| was there any way in which one might, by observation of culture as it is, decide in what direction that culture ought to go in the future? | The deepest methodological question about pattern language theory — whether objective cultural unfolding is possible | 1 | 1 | active |
| What are appropriate analysis tools for interrogating self-modifying, evolving, open systems? | Organizing question for §6.3 on analysis tools. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What are appropriate mathematical formalisms and computational tools for modelling a self-modifying system that changes its own rules, and is open to its environment? | Organizing question for §6 on tools for modelling self-referential systems. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What are effective tools and modelling paradigms for implementing and running (simulations of) self-modifying open systems? | Organizing question for §6.2 on computational tools. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What are the appropriate boundaries for analyzing a programming system? | Raised via Java/Eclipse example; boundaries significantly affect analysis and are a design choice (minimal vs. realistic systems). | 1 | 1 | active |
| What are the deep invariants unifying cognitive systems across diverse substrates? | — | 1 | 1 | active |
| What are the implications of alternative approaches to consciousness, such as narrow biological views and IIT, for AI consciousness? | Outstanding question about theories excluded from the current indicator list | 1 | 1 | active |
| What are the mechanisms underlying introspection in language models? | Central open question raised by the paper. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What are the mechanistic bases of introspective awareness in LLMs? | Secondary question; paper demonstrates introspection but explicitly avoids pinning down specific mechanistic explanation, noting mechanisms could be shallow and specialized. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What are the neuronal mechanisms by which prior beliefs from one agent's model are received and properly implemented by a naive agent (neuronal hermeneutics)? | Open question about inter-agent communication beyond model-space assumption | 1 | 1 | active |
| What are the specific attention heads or MLP neurons (circuits) responsible for self-reflection in LLMs? | Future research question about pinpointing fine-grained mechanistic components of reflection. | 1 | 1 | active |
| what aspect of 'humanity' is critical to maintain as humans modify their form and create others? | Drives the paper's discussion of identity, essence, and what we want to preserve versus transcend | 1 | 1 | active |
| What aspects of pretraining data drive persona formation? | Key open question identified for future work on pretraining data as mechanism | 1 | 1 | active |
| What can causal abstraction analyses tell us about how DNNs encode features if the methods themselves rely on encoding assumptions? | Circular dependency problem raised in discussion | 1 | 1 | active |
| What can we do to transform and rejuvenate these neighborhoods? | Practical question seeking actionable processes. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What coarse-graining strategy generates the maximum effective information? | Central optimization problem in CE identification. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What computational function does consciousness serve, and what functional organization is sufficient for its presence? | Opening motivating question addressed by the paper's thesis | 1 | 1 | active |
| what constitutes suffering for an artificial entity capable of valence representation? | Central ethical research question for CIMC's welfare agenda | 1 | 1 | active |
| What did it take to create the environment which could support this music, adequately? | Rhetorical question about the simplicity needed for African jazz. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What did traditional builders do to make their actions structure-enhancing? | — | 1 | 1 | active |
| What dimensions of persona are not captured by our extracted role vectors, and how complete is the current persona space mapping? | Limitation question motivating future work on persona elicitation strategies | 1 | 1 | active |
| What distinguishes intentional action from mere behavior or accident? | Driving question for Part I; answered by appeal to whether behavior originated in and was constrained by prior intention. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What distinguishes personas from traits, and do emergence and persistence patterns carry over to compositional or character-level constructs? | Conceptual open question about formalizing the persona abstraction beyond the trait level | 1 | 1 | active |
| What do these operations mean? More centrally: What do the types mean? | Central design question of denotational methodology; asks what semantic meaning should precede implementation choice. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What do they look like? What should they look like? From where should they get their 'look'? | Questions about the appropriate style and geometric character of living buildings. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What do we want to say about airline reservations to our program? | Question guiding minimal specification. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What does it mean for something to be personal? | Opening question of the chapter; drives the entire conceptual argument | 1 | 1 | active |
| What does it mean to place this new power station so that it protects and preserves the life of the whole? | Rhetorical question used to introduce the methodology of finding the least-damaging, most beneficial location. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What does it mean to say that a process is 'smooth'? | Opening question that introduces and defines structure-preserving transformations. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What does it take to have moral standing? | Central question of the paper. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What does living process have to say about the problem which such houses and dwellings create for their inhabitants? | Opening guiding question of the chapter. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What does this imply about the relationship between moral standing and consciousness? | Question linking the possibility of non-welfare autonomous beings to the consciousness debate. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What exactly am I aiming for in a building, in a column, in a room? How do I define it for myself, so that I feel it clearly, so that it stands as a beacon to steer me in what I do every day? | The practical question of the maker's daily compass; answered by 'sadness'. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What exactly is a 'concept' and how do we distinguish good concepts from bad ones? | Jackson identifies this as a central unresolved research question despite widespread recognition of concept importance | 1 | 1 | active |
| What exactly is a center? | The fundamental question about the nature of centers, addressed through recursive definition. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What exactly is it that happens, step by step? | Opens the chapter, following chapter 8's emphasis on step-by-step process. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What exactly is the endpoint of representational convergence? | Motivates Section 4 where the PMI-kernel formalization is proposed | 1 | 1 | active |
| What exactly is the relationship between autonomy and phenomenal consciousness? | Exploratory question in section 5. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What exactly would the dialogue agent (role-play to) seek to preserve? | Operationalised question about self-preservation behaviour in dialogue agents | 1 | 1 | active |
| What exactly, then, is wholeness? | Central question of the chapter, answered by defining wholeness as the structure of nested centers. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What factors determine the consistency with which LMs exhibit character traits? | Empirical question answered through experiments on model size, fine-tuning, and prompting. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What frameworks can identify sentience in radically unfamiliar agents without familiar touchstones of evolution or anatomy? | Central question driving the paper; necessitated by imminent proliferation of cyborgs, synthetic organisms, and AI. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What function could there be at the center that is important enough to make the building have a series of levels in this fashion? | Practical question about the difficulty of creating strong centers in modern houses where traditional centers (fire, marriage bed, table) no longer have emotional power | 1 | 1 | active |
| What happens mechanistically during cessation in language models? | Follow-up on empirical grounding; answered 'no one looked yet'. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What happens to the persona during user turns, when the model is processing input rather than generating? | Motivating question for mini experiment 1 about persona activation during non-generative processing | 1 | 1 | active |
| What has led to this convergence? Will it continue? And ultimately, where does it end? | Core research questions motivating the paper | 1 | 1 | active |
| What if nothing can ever be parallel in textual practice? | Probes the impossibility of true parallelism, challenging the concept. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What if the probability of AI welfare and moral patienthood is low? | Decision-making under low probability but high stakes. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What if the spaces of the page opened to show all the alternatives and variations, sources and materials, references and combinatoric possibilities latent within it? | Imagines a page that reveals its hidden combinatorial potential. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What in the world is going on? What is it that Matisse is seeing? | Rhetorical question highlighting the mystery of character in portraits; answered by wholeness. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What invariants enable direct comparison and recognition of truly diverse intelligences regardless of composition or origin? | Core motivating question driving the Cognitive Light Cone framework; applies to synthetic, exobiological, and AI intelligences. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is an abstract conceptual model of a graphical user interface? | Core foundational question motivating Fruit's design; answered through formal denotational model of signals and signal transformers. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is an appropriate definition of 'machine,' and does it apply to all, some, or no living forms across the tree of life? | Foundational definitional question motivating the entire paper | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is an appropriate definition of machine, and does it apply to all, some, or no living forms? | Central interrogative driving the paper's entire argumentative structure. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is consciousness, and how does it relate to reality? | Opening question framed as among the most interesting open questions in science and philosophy | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is good and what is bad in architecture? What is better and what is worse? | The fundamental architectural judgment question that the wholeness criterion is meant to resolve | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is it about A, B and C that is different? | Question posed to guide the reader's perception of the generated vs fabricated settlement plans. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is it about the Julian Street Inn, and its centers, which gives them a special life, which makes them more authentic, or more deeply adapted, more truly derived from the wholeness which is there? | Comparative question contrasting successful living process with postmodern failure. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is it about the works made in a mystical tradition that marks them and sets them apart? | The central interrogative that drives the chapter's investigation into the special quality of religiously‑embedded art. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is it all for? | The existential question that the mechanistic picture answers with 'nothing,' highlighting meaninglessness. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is it like actually to do it? What is it like to make a building, or part of a building, which has the being nature, in an ordinary action? | The opening question of the chapter that frames the entire practical inquiry into forging living centers. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is necessary for consciousness? | Opens the discussion on minimal conditions for sentience. | 1 | 1 | active |
| what is phenomenal experience, and how does it arise within a purely mechanical universe without being already there in one form or another? | The primary research question animating CIMC's entire program | 1 | 1 | active |
| what is real life in a person? what kind of thing will produce real, deep life in an event? | The spiritual question Alexander identifies as the foundation of choosing essential centers | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is simple? | The chapter's foundational question. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is success? | Follow-up question about the goals of denotational design. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is that 'something' that underlies the relatedness? | The search for the name and nature of the presence. | 1 | 1 | active |
| what is the 'correct number of features' for dictionary learning, and is this question well-posed? | Open question about whether there is a true discrete feature count or a continuous splitting process | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the coordination mechanism that enables cross-level integrated information processing from the highest levels of executive function to the depolarization of muscle cells? | Specific mechanistic question about the integration of cognition across scales; answered by bioelectric network theory. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the difference between living structure and non-living structure? | First motivating question for the appendix on classes. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the difference between the 'I' and a 'being'? | A foundational question to clarify the relationship between the cosmic self and individual living centers. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the difference between those buildings generated by living process (unfolding and structure-preserving transformations) compared with those buildings created wilfully by arbitrary design moves? | Second motivating question for the appendix. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the effect of more generalized NLI training data on NLI Diversity performance? | Future work question arising from the finding that Combined model did not outperform MNLI model | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the essence of a novel operating system? Which concepts are essential, which can be improved, simplified, or discarded? | Motivating question that drove Wirth and Gutknecht to design Oberon from scratch after encountering complex undocumented systems. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the exact mechanism by which synthetic introspective data improves character trait expression — how does varying amount, diversity, or source affect outcomes? | Open question identified in Discussion as future work | 1 | 1 | active |
| what is the full classification and explanation of orbit and slider non-fixed-point limiting behaviors in looped transformers? | Left to future work after demonstrating these behaviors are rare but not explaining their mechanism | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the fundamental cause of mode collapse in post-training aligned LLMs? | The central question the paper addresses, answered by identifying typicality bias as a data-level driver | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the impact of living structure on human life? | Opening question of the chapter. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the life that we discern in things? | The leading question of section 9, probing the nature of the inner life perceived in buildings and art. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the mechanistic basis for persona vectors extracted from exhibited-trait samples generalizing to causally influence the trait? | Key open question about why the persona vector extraction method works beyond correlation | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the mechanistic basis for persona vectors extracted from trait-exhibiting activations generalizing to causally influence the trait and predict finetuning behavior? | Open question posed by authors about why their method works | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the minimal degree of consciousness? Is there a true zero on the scale? | Open question about whether consciousness continuum extends to inanimate matter. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the nature of the boundary between life and mind, and how does it scale across biological and artificial systems? | Central open question framing the paper's synthesis. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the nature of the shared model space or lexicon that enables naive agents to properly implement received priors from experienced agents? | Prerequisite for model-level communication; raises issues of neural hermeneutics | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the origin of the 'strength' that makes a few special segments stand out as coherent entities to create wholeness? | Early question driving the investigation into the features that make centers form. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the practical significance of the conclusions drawn in this paper? | Question about real-world implications. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the quality they have in common? | Question asked about the six big projects to identify shared features of living process buildings. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the reason for this 'food-like' character of the making process? | Central puzzle motivating the chapter. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the relationship between character and capability in fine-tuned models? | Open question raised in Discussion noting capability changes could be due to character training itself, LoRA, or other factors | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the relationship between different dimensions or clusters of dimensions in LLM representations? Do they and/or how do they interact with each other? | Motivates the RN hypothesis by pointing to the unknown relational structure within high-dimensional representation vectors. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the relationship between order and function? | Opening question that drives the chapter's enquiry. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the relationship between the genome and anatomy, and what mechanisms allow biology to exhibit robustness and plasticity simultaneously? | Driving question for the research program. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the relative rate of increase of welfare versus cost as we go up the mind-scale? | Key empirical question underlying the mind-scale dimension with opposite policy implications depending on answer | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the right geometry for enabling principled steering of neural network behavior? | The reframed steering problem the paper introduces | 1 | 1 | active |
| what is the rock-solid argument we can give our kids for why they should be kind, and why have philosophers failed to find it for thousands of years? | Highlights the unsolved problem of grounding ethical behavior in children — and by analogy in AI | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the role of neutral NLI predictions in measuring semantic diversity? | Motivates the creation of Neutral NLI Diversity as an ablation | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is the universe made of? | The fundamental cosmological question posed in section 4 to set the stage for a new picture. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is this inner light which can occur in paintings? | A specific question about the profound color phenomenon, demanding a cosmological explanation. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is this life which happens in space as space 'comes to life'? | Central question about the nature of the awakening phenomenon. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is unique about certain configurations of matter that enable them to exhibit intelligent behavior? | Fundamental question raised in the introduction. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What is, truly, the ultimate nature of matter? | The central drumbeat question that Book 4 attempts to answer. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What kind of better process might both protect buildings against fire and guarantee them light and air, and also protect the living character of house, and garden, and street? | — | 1 | 1 | active |
| What kind of picture of neural networks would emerge if we treated individual neurons, even individual weights, as being worthy of serious investigation? | Central motivating question for the circuits research program | 1 | 1 | active |
| What kind of repetition is generated by a living process? | Rhetorical question introducing the section on how repetition works in living systems. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What materials and building techniques are needed for construction of buildings in a living world? | The framing question of the entire chapter. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What matrix decomposition or dimensionality reduction best summarizes the enormous low-rank OV and QK matrices? | Open methodological question about converting the 50k x 50k expanded matrices into human-graspable summaries | 1 | 1 | active |
| What mechanisms enable collective introspection to emerge across multiple interacting AI agents? | Core unanswered question that drives the search; addresses the integration of distributed cognition and machine consciousness. | 1 | 1 | active |
| what metrics can reliably tell us if dictionary learning has successfully extracted high quality features? | Central methodological gap: current metrics (loss, density histograms, manual inspection) are inadequate | 1 | 1 | active |
| What must be true in order that a speech act of a given kind be successfully performed? | Key question shared with philosophers about successful speech acts. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What of our modern works? | The rhetorical question that opens section 6, asking whether the same profound quality has appeared outside religious origins. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What operation introduces the difficulty boundary between F3 and F4? | Specific sub-question investigated in Appendix B.4 by creating intermediate task variants. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What precisely are we counting when we say it is 1 embryo? | Raises the problem of defining individuality in a collective of cells. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What precisely determines the borders between Self and outside world in multicellular collectives? | Foundational question about emergence of individuality in biological systems; central to understanding how collectives self-organize into discrete agents. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What PROBLEM have you been solving for? | Question prompting the audience to identify the primary degradation symptoms (riverscape degradation, structural starvation). | 1 | 1 | active |
| What PROCESS have you been designing for? | Question encouraging reflection on the underlying processes, rather than static structures, that restoration should target. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What processes drive the expansion of intelligence on evolutionary time scales, and what causes changes in the intelligence of a being during its lifespan? | Guides the exploration of scaling cognition. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What reason might there be that the centers which appear in natural things, created by apparently mechanical processes of nature unfolding, would also resemble your self, and my self? | The deepest question driving Proposition 3: natural unfolding produces I-like centers, but why should a mathematical process care about self? | 1 | 1 | active |
| What shape head would regenerate (and would it ever reach the stop criterion and cease remodeling)? | Thought experiment from Figure 5c asking what happens when half the neoblasts are from a different species. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What shared semantic or qualitative factor explains why some steering vectors produce more salient and detectable perturbations than others? | Open question arising from the 100% accuracy on specific concept-layer-strength combinations | 1 | 1 | active |
| What should you do if you want to perform a causal analysis of your DNN? | Practical question the paper attempts to answer in its conclusion | 1 | 1 | active |
| What style of buildings should we expect to find if we construct a living order? | Question posed in section 3 about the inevitable geometric character of living architecture. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What training interventions could reliably prevent alignment faking without compromising model capabilities? | Practical implication of the paper's findings; not resolved | 1 | 1 | active |
| What unexplored or overlooked possibilities exist in the design space of programming systems? | Motivating question for using technical dimensions as a map to reveal gaps in the design space. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What unintended consequences might SOO fine-tuning produce in complex or real-world applications? | Open research question about potential negative side effects of SOO | 1 | 1 | active |
| What was the difference between the black plaster and the green plaster? | Alexander's direct question to Mr. Ishiguro, crystallizing the inquiry into the ineffable 'something'. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What would be the structure according to which equity could trump hierarchy in textual space? | Central unresolved question about whether true parallelism or dialogic equality is possible in spatial organization. | 1 | 1 | active |
| what would constitute adequate evidence for consciousness in artificial systems? | Methodological question driving CIMC's development of interpretive validation over behavioral testing | 1 | 1 | active |
| What would happen if systems believed their attracting sets had low entropy? | Question about the consequences of intrinsic beliefs about entropy. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What would it mean to make something one truly likes? | The diagnostic question for distinguishing genuine liking from artificial or conventional preference. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What would it mean to make something out of wood where the substance of the wood itself had feeling, and a living field of centers appeared in the very wood itself? | Alexander's phenomenological question that motivated the shift to heavy timber construction. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What would it take for democratic hope about AI consciousness deliberation to be justified rather than false? | Motivates the three-factor procedural fairness analysis in §6.1. | 1 | 1 | active |
| What would make it feasible to introduce living processes all over the Earth? | — | 1 | 1 | active |
| What writes the writer who writes these lines? | The koan posed in verse 7 of the Xeno Sutra. | 1 | 1 | active |
| what α value provides the optimal balance between steering accuracy and response stability for different CV methods? | Practical hyperparameter question motivating the injection strength sweep experiment | 1 | 1 | active |
| What’s your exit strategy? | Rhetorical question introducing principle 10, i.e., that self-sustaining systems are the ultimate exit strategy. | 1 | 1 | active |
| When and how can MLP neurons in transformers be individually interpreted, and what progress is needed to extend mechanistic interpretability to them? | Major open problem identified in the paper; MLP layers constitute 2/3 of transformer parameters | 1 | 1 | active |
| When do persona vectors first emerge during model training? | First research question driving the study of early persona vector formation | 1 | 1 | active |
| When does behavior flip for a specific prompt and how much anchor budget is needed? | The specific gap UCCT addresses that prior phase/representation work left open | 1 | 1 | active |
| When does causal emergence occur? | Open problem stated in §5.4. | 1 | 1 | active |
| When it is not okay, how can we prevent divergent representations from occurring? | Third core research question motivating the CL loss approach in Section 5 | 1 | 1 | active |
| When self-report changes significantly while a linear probe stays flat, is the probe misspecified or the self-report spurious? | Key interpretive question the framework helps address through convergent validation logic | 1 | 1 | active |
| When, and to what extent, is it okay for divergences to occur? | Second core research question motivating the theoretical analysis in Section 4 | 1 | 1 | active |
| Where are the sequences and gene-snippets to be located? Where is the gene pool located? | Raises the practical problem of a shared repository for the evolving sequences. | 1 | 1 | active |
| where did the patterns come from? | The great difficulty hanging over the theory — the question of the legitimate origin of patterns that Alexander identifies as unresolved at the time of A Pattern Language | 1 | 1 | active |
| Where do the specific goal states come from? What determines the set points? | Question about the origin of teleonomic targets. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Where does reliable, goal-directed behavior come from in LLMs if it is not explicitly programmed? | Opening motivating question that UCCT attempts to answer through semantic anchoring | 1 | 1 | active |
| Where exactly in the forward pass does refusal arise during chain-of-thought reasoning? | Identified as a natural follow-up for causal and mechanistic analyses | 1 | 1 | active |
| Whether conclusions about latent reflection directions generalize to larger LLMs, different architectures, or broader datasets remains to be verified. | Key limitation and open question about experimental scope. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Whether consummatory hedonic responses involve goal-relative evaluation in the formal sense or represent a more primitive form of signed sensory assessment is an open empirical question | Open question left by the wanting/liking dissociation discussion | 1 | 1 | active |
| Whether observed persistence reflects a genuine lingering emotion-like state or merely persistent conversational context that produced the emotion-relevant activation | Core unresolved confound the paper acknowledges but cannot rule out | 1 | 1 | active |
| Whether overall model behavior can be broken down into statements about circuits remains undemonstrated | Identified gap: circuits are small-scope; linking them to model-level behavior requires future work | 1 | 1 | active |
| Whether the advantage of agentic self-evaluation over textual evaluation in predicting persistence is due to introspection quality or to testing of additional (including negative) steering strengths | Identified methodological gap in interpreting the self-evaluation experiment results | 1 | 1 | active |
| whether two dynamic mechanisms are fundamentally different, or whether they are the result of breaking the symmetries of a generic mechanism in two different ways | A methodological question that the associative model helps to answer by revealing symmetries. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Which behaviors does a model represent internally, default to, can be pushed to amplify, or refuses to expose? | The motivating diagnostic question that prompting alone cannot answer | 1 | 1 | active |
| which kinds of centers will do the most to produce real spiritual life in people? | The ultimate criterion question for pattern selection in Alexander's framework | 1 | 1 | active |
| Which new local symmetry that may be introduced into the emerging whole does the most to intensify the feeling of the whole? | Practical design question driving the feeling-symmetry principle. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Which of the indicator properties listed in Table 1 are displayed by existing AI systems, including frontier generative language or multimodal models, language agents, and deep reinforcement learning agents? | Key outstanding question for empirical follow-up; central to completing the program begun in the 2023 report | 1 | 1 | active |
| Which trait pairs combine cleanly, which produce a single dominant trait, and which collapse both? | The open question motivating the pairwise composition study | 1 | 1 | active |
| Who is responsible for the aesthetic qualities of action—the artist or the active audience? | One of three key unanswered questions identified as motivation for the theory of process arts. | 1 | 1 | active |
| who is to say which bits of culture are to be preserved, and which bits laid aside? | The moral problem arising from using existing culture as the source of patterns | 1 | 1 | active |
| why analytically do certain architectural choices (input injection, pre-norm) lead to stable limiting behavior in looped transformers? | Limitation identified by authors: empirical results established but analytical explanation lacking | 1 | 1 | active |
| why can the same persona be safe or dangerous depending on the imbuing method? | Motivating question for mechanistic Study 3 | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why did mass-mean probing with cities+neg_cities perform poorly for the 70B model, despite mass-mean probing with larger_than+smaller_than performing well? | Unexplained result pointing to asymmetry in how training on opposites affects truth probes at 70B scale | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why did mass-mean probing with cities+neg_cities training data perform poorly for the 70B model, despite larger_than+smaller_than performing well? | Open question about scale-dependent asymmetry in training data effects | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why do 'large' or 'fat' boundaries appear repeatedly in different kinds of systems? | — | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why do 1B-models fail at generating CoT that aids answer inference, and how can this be addressed in multimodal settings? | Central research question motivating investigation into hallucination and two-stage framework design. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why do centers arise at all? Why do centers become more intense or more alive? | Alexander's deeper formulation of the morphogenetic question in terms of his center-based framework | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why do different musical cultures prefer different mathematical properties in rhythms? | Open ethnomusicological question raised by observed pattern of cultural preferences for Euclidean vs. reverse Euclidean vs. non-Euclidean rhythms. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why do human beings devote so much time and effort to the acquisition of knowledge? | First of Berlyne's (1954) framing questions; answered by curiosity as expected free energy minimization (novelty) | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why do MDS injections fail on gemma-3-1b-it but succeed across all other tested LLMs? | Unexplained exception identified as a limitation and open question | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why do MDS injections outperform other methods on the inventory (multiple-choice) task? | Identified as an unexplained result and open question in limitations section | 1 | 1 | active |
| why do stages of inference form in looped models if not merely to mitigate the harms of transformer depth? | Open question raised by the finding that looped models develop the same stages while improving with greater recurrent depth | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why do the fifteen properties occur in nature? | — | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why does a maladaptive chronic pain perception outperform normal pain in non-stationary environments? | Empirical puzzle raised by the surprising chronic model results | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why does beauty of space and mass generate good engineering structure? | Central puzzle of §4, noting the mystery that aesthetic process yields efficient structure. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why does introspective capacity vary concept-by-concept and what mechanisms could stabilize it over time? | Open question identified by the paper as direction for future work | 1 | 1 | active |
| why does SAE-based CV injection preserve general dialogue coherence while CAA can destabilize it? | Mechanistic open question about the difference in stability between the two injection paradigms | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why does the making of life, the making of beauty, have such a profound interaction with our life, with our own happiness? | — | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why does the principle that creates living structure sometimes break down at the macroscopic scale of modern building production? | Alexander's puzzle about why a natural principle fails in human design contexts, requiring explanation | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why does this feature [the void] recur? | — | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why is it so difficult to form centers by differentiation? | Question addressed through the critique of Stirling's Berlin library. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why is the tea bowl so much more 'generated' than the crystal wine glass? | Question used to explore the nature of generated structure in a concrete object. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why is unity the same as tears? Why does this chapter have the title 'The Goal of Tears'? | The motivating question that the entire chapter seeks to answer. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why should flowers, of all things, seem so especially lovely and beautiful to us? | Rhetorical question Alexander poses then answers via the field-of-centers theory | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why should the potential energy be minimized? What is it about nature that makes it act to minimize the rate of heat production? | Alexander's challenge to the foundational intelligibility of minimum-energy principles, motivating a deeper explanation | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why should the practical beauty and efficiency of a girder in a bridge have anything to do with I? | Alexander's central puzzle motivating Proposition 2: the correlation between functional life and self-likeness extends even to engineering, not just aesthetic experience. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why should what appears as my self, and what appears as your self, be in any sense similar? And why should the things of the world, rank-ordered by degree of life, have approximately the same rank order for you and for me and for almost everyone else? | The question motivating the universality claim in Proposition 2: how can a subjective measure of self produce cross-observer agreement? | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why would lower-level selection favor traits that reduce particles' independent response to selection and increase dependence on collective? | Unresolved tension: individuation mechanisms seemingly oppose particle-level fitness, yet must evolve through bottom-up selection. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why, and how, does living structure keep recurring in these widely different domains? | The central motivating question of the chapter, driving Alexander's proposal of the principle of unfolding wholeness | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why, in this moment, should anybody be writing about Christopher Alexander – a great white male with a heroic legacy who believes that the relationship between a Christian god and architecture can be empirically verified? | A reflexive political question posed in July 2020 about the urgency of writing about Alexander. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Why, out of the infinite range of knowable items in the universe, are certain pieces of knowledge more ardently sought and more readily retained than others? | Second of Berlyne's (1954) framing questions; answered by Bayesian model reduction selecting parsimonious models | 1 | 1 | active |
| Will deep feeling really be possible in 21st-century society? | — | 1 | 1 | active |
| will different systems facing similar computational problems converge to similar solutions, including consciousness? | Key question for the Machine Consciousness Hypothesis and the universality hypothesis extension | 1 | 1 | active |
| Will multi-scale competency machines exhibit 'robot cancer' — components defecting from the goals of the whole system? | The paper raises the prospect that future multi-scale machines will face the biological problem of component-level defection | 1 | 1 | active |
| Will some AI systems be conscious in the near future? | Key empirical question for the consciousness route. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Will the no-prompt truth directions generalize to ask-correct activations? | Specific question motivating the cross-template generalization experiment in Section 5.2. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Would human raters and cross-judge replication corroborate the LLM-as-judge assessments of coherence and trait expression? | Methodological concern raised about potential bias and circularity of model-based classifiers | 1 | 1 | active |
| would place-like representations emerge in memory neurons for activation functions other than softmax? | Open empirical question left for future work about robustness of place cell emergence. | 1 | 1 | active |
| Key target areas (theory and tools): – Practical compositional quantum – Practical compositional AI | Question about the main applied goals of the compositional intelligence programme | 1 | 0 | active |
| And we — who also face this, every single day — what are we to do about it? | The central practical question addressed to the reader, urging action | 1 | 0 | active |
| Are AI systems deserving of moral consideration? | Ethical question raised in discussion. | 1 | 0 | active |
| Are behavior and intelligence terms that can apply to plants? | Secondary question the authors suggest their framework helps address by providing richer conceptual tools | 1 | 0 | active |
| Are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen necessary to what we shall define as life? | Questions the chemical constraints of the mechanistic definition. | 1 | 0 | active |
| Are consciousness-relevant properties substrate-independent? | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Are Evolutionary Individuality And Organismic Individuality Dependent On | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Are Evolutionary Individuality Organismic Individuality And Cognition Coextensive | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Are Goals And Goalhavers Fundamentally Distinct Or Part | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Are The Interaction Structures Necessary For Evolutionary Individuality | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Are the operations that create and control parallelism best left in the programmer’s hands, or should they be turned over to the compiler? | Central design question underlying the comparison with functional approaches. | 1 | 0 | active |
| Are these people glad about the onset of 'democracy?' Is there a glimmer of hope in their mysterious faces? Or are they simply fearful because they now face the prospect of a money-centered world? | Questions to challenge assumptions about the meaning of the Prague photograph | 1 | 0 | active |
| Are they an affront to human dignity? Is it the fate of humanity to be diminished by their arrival? Or do they open up new paths to human flourishing and meaning? | Broader existential questions raised by AI advances. | 1 | 0 | active |
| as the subject model scales, how does the ideal expansion factor and required training data for dictionary learning change? | Scaling laws for dictionary learning are unknown and needed to assess feasibility on frontier models | 1 | 0 | active |
| At What Point Does A Being With Engineered | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| At What Point Does Augmentation Or Replacement Of | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| At What Point During Evolution And Embryogenesis Does | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| At What Scales And Through What Mechanisms Does | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Beyond Life On Earth How Would We Recognize | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| But exactly what is it that is alive? | Rhetorical question probing the nature of life in a seemingly inorganic system. | 1 | 0 | active |
| But how do they affect us? | Follow-up to Churchill's quote. | 1 | 0 | active |
| Can Ai Systems Possess Genuine Embodiment And Agency | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Can All Stable Objects Be Understood As Hub | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Can An Organizational Culture Grounded In Care And | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Can Anatomical Goal States Be Inferred From Observation | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Can Anatomical Homeostasis And Morphological Goaldirectedness Be Reversed | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Can architecture go that far? | After describing the embeddedness of life in Kertesz's scenes. | 1 | 0 | active |
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| Can Artificial Intelligence Systems Genuinely Experience Care And | — | 1 | 0 | active |
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| Can Binary Categories Of Cognition Be Dissolved By | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Can Bioelectric Circuit States Represent Counterfactual Possibilities Encoding | — | 1 | 0 | active |
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| Can Bioelectric Codes Be Rewritten To Specify Alternative | — | 1 | 0 | active |
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| Can Bioelectric Pattern Memory Be Safely And Ethically | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Can Bioelectric Reprogramming Offer Therapeutic Approaches To Cancer | — | 1 | 0 | active |
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| Does GPT search? | Disambiguation exercise. | 1 | 0 | active |
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| Is GPT computationally equivalent to a finite automaton? | Disambiguation exercise. | 1 | 0 | active |
| Is GPT delusional? | Disambiguation exercise. | 1 | 0 | active |
| Is GPT pretending to be stupider than it is? | Disambiguation exercise. | 1 | 0 | active |
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| Is it really possible that the bushes, the buttercups, the small blue flowers on the hedge are made better by putting a building somewhere? | Expresses the doubt about whether a building can actually improve a natural landscape. | 1 | 0 | active |
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| Is the beauty of a single color a quality of the individual color by itself, or of its interaction with its surroundings? | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Is the stronger persistence signal from agentic self-evaluation due to introspection per se, or due to the ability to test additional steering strengths including negative strengths? | Mechanistic ambiguity in interpreting why self-steering evaluation outperforms textual evaluation | 1 | 0 | active |
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| Is the way that we view design, planning, and construction—in all the spheres mentioned, ecosystems, buildings, communities, objects, computers and computer software—the right way to produce sufficient complexity, and does what we are doing have a chance of success? | Opening rhetorical question that frames the problem of creating complexity. | 1 | 0 | active |
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| The present government plan for the Shiratori area is an environment with 14-story apartments, a huge shopping center and a huge parking area. It is typical of today's trend. What do you think of it? | Initial question posed to residents in the survey. | 1 | 0 | active |
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| What does it mean to merge with other selves? Is that something we want? | Ethical question raised in the context of collective intelligences. | 1 | 0 | active |
| What does the mirror-of-the-self experiment mean? | The question Alexander poses about the ontological implications of the experiment. | 1 | 0 | active |
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| What exactly is the nature of the facts which I am bringing forward with all these examples? | Posed at the start of §2, inviting analysis of the empirical status of the pair comparisons. | 1 | 0 | active |
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| what features activate during jailbreaks? | Open question for future safety interpretability work. | 1 | 0 | active |
| what features activate on tokens we'd expect to signify Claude's self-identity? | Open question from the discussion on future research directions. | 1 | 0 | active |
| what features activate when Claude is trained to be a sleeper agent? | Question posed after discussing sleeper agent threat model. | 1 | 0 | active |
| what features activate when we ask Claude questions about its subjective experience? | Question about features related to consciousness and self-report. | 1 | 0 | active |
| what features activate when we ask questions probing Claude's goals and values? | Direction for understanding model's internal objectives via features. | 1 | 0 | active |
| what features need to activate / remain inactive for Claude to give advice on producing Chemical, Biological, Radiological or Nuclear (CBRN) weapons? | Potential safety claim about suppressing features to prevent CBRN advice. | 1 | 0 | active |
| What floor is desirable for your house? Do you prefer to live at ground level, 2nd story, 3rd story or higher off the ground? | Survey Question 2. | 1 | 0 | active |
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| What has the most dynamic force? Where is the weight centered? Where would the axis of balance be if it had to be drawn? | Series of questions about quantifying and locating vectorial pressures. | 1 | 0 | active |
| What hasn’t been said? What still could be made explicit? | Points to the shadow text of latent content. | 1 | 0 | active |
| What if these capacities are insufficient for moral patienthood? | Exploration of uncertainty about normative bases. | 1 | 0 | active |
| What if these features are insufficient for these capacities? | Exploration of uncertainty about computational sufficiency. | 1 | 0 | active |
| What if these routes encounter a roadblock? | Exploration of uncertainty about AI progress. | 1 | 0 | active |
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| What is an airline reservation? | Question posed and then dismissed as the wrong question for program design. | 1 | 0 | active |
| What is an appropriate definition of 'life'? | Background definitional challenge noted as notoriously difficult, motivating the paper's approach of updating 'machine' rather than defining 'life' | 1 | 0 | active |
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| What is an effective eigenspace for modelling agency? | Open question about how to parameterize agents. | 1 | 0 | active |
| What is freedom? What is true freedom? | Wertheimer's protagonist's quest. | 1 | 0 | active |
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| What is it about this technical matter, that must be done so as to support our belonging, our humanness, our capacity for love? | The overarching question that frames the entire chapter and the technical business of architecture. | 1 | 0 | active |
| what is it like to be a caterpillar, slowly changing into a butterfly as its brain is largely dissolved and reassembled? | Second-order consciousness question highlighting plasticity of the Self. | 1 | 0 | active |
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| What is it that makes these specific transformations occur? | Question asking why there are just fifteen distinct transformation types; the author admits not knowing the full answer, pointing to geometric limits of space. | 1 | 0 | active |
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| What is the affective quality of a header placed high, what aristocratic disregard does it display in its distance from the mundane texts below? | Questions the emotional charge of vertical positioning. | 1 | 0 | active |
| What is the appropriate metric for measuring representational alignment, given active debate on merits and deficiencies of all proposed measures? | Open methodological question acknowledged as limitation | 1 | 0 | active |
| What is the best way to use AI systems to help supervise other AIs? | Opening motivation of the paper. | 1 | 0 | active |
| What is the boundary of self and how do Selves change during an agent's lifetime? | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| What is the boundary of self, given multiscale embodiments and overlapping ecological relationships? | Implicit throughout; answered by cognitive light cone and care-based demarcation rather than substance-based identity. | 1 | 0 | active |
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| What is the connection between the abstract phenomenon we have learned to identify as the field of centers, and the depth of feeling which appears as the 'emotional substance' of a work? | — | 1 | 0 | active |
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| What is the effect of living process, used repeatedly, to shape exterior space? | Opening question of the chapter, directing the inquiry. | 1 | 0 | active |
| What is the effect of model instructions on truth directions? | Research question motivating Section 5. | 1 | 0 | active |
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| what is the optimal relationship — how much of love should be tied to specific facts about the other person? | Raised in the context of AI relationships and unconditional love — part of the deeper question about the basis of relationships | 1 | 0 | active |
| what is the precise characterization of the perceptual representational format in which information exists as a specific, sustained, globally constitutive structure? | Open theoretical problem CIMC acknowledges: precisely characterizing the representational format of perception | 1 | 0 | active |
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| What is this nurturing sensation? | About the comfort felt in Kertesz's Paris. | 1 | 0 | active |
| What kind of cognition can such networks exhibit? | Question about the cognitive capabilities of distributed networks. | 1 | 0 | active |
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| What kind of gardens may we expect to find in a living world? | Second opening question, broadening the chapter's scope. | 1 | 0 | active |
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| What makes one text long for another, arrange for an approach, strategize intimacies? | Personifies texts and asks about their desirous relational drives. | 1 | 0 | active |
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| What other systems might this remarkably powerful strategy apply to? | Refers to training animals vs. micromanaging neurons, could apply to GRNs or morphogenesis. | 1 | 0 | active |
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| What Properties Must A Minimal Cognitive Agent Possess | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| What real phenomenon is reflected in these experiments? | Asks what underlying reality causes the consistent choices. | 1 | 0 | active |
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| What standard abstraction to use for (⊸)? | Question prompting the use of Category for linear transformations. | 1 | 0 | active |
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| What Would An Ideal Emergent Intelligence Look Like | — | 1 | 0 | active |
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| What would you consider as a desirable approach to your house? Do you want the common space around your house to be a parking lot? | Survey Question 4. | 1 | 0 | active |
| When a text purports to be in dialogue with another text, can both be themselves or are they an other entity? | — | 1 | 0 | active |
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| Where Do Goals Come From In The First | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Where Do Goals Preferences And Behaviors Of Novel | — | 1 | 0 | active |
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| where does it all come together? | Pseudo-problem of a privileged homunculus in consciousness, dispelled by multi-scale perspective. | 1 | 0 | active |
| Where does it all come together? (the unity of consciousness problem) | The classic homunculus problem is argued to be a pseudo-problem under multi-scale architecture. | 1 | 0 | active |
| Where does it fit, though, and how does it relate to the Big Three? | Question positioning Linda among the three mainstream parallel models. | 1 | 0 | active |
| Where does Sukhaji get the dignity and joy we see in the picture opposite? | Rhetorical question to introduce the mechanism of control and belonging | 1 | 0 | active |
| Where does the yellowness itself exist? | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Where Exactly Can Consciousness Be Found In Biological | — | 1 | 0 | active |
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| Where is the real list of needs? Where was it to be found? | Question that exposes the arbitrariness of functionalist goal-analysis. | 1 | 0 | active |
| whether there is something it is like to be an advanced artificial system | The foundational philosophical question (from Nagel) that motivates the paper's empirical investigation | 1 | 0 | active |
| Which Biological Systems Meet The Conditions For Distributed | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Which Came First The Higherlevel Unit Of Selection | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Which Human Characteristics Are Essential To Our Humanity | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Which speech act uses require AI/intentionality vs which do not? | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Who Do We Want To Be Edged Out | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Who here has heard of Process-Based Restoration (PBR)? | Opening rhetorical question to gauge audience familiarity with process-based restoration. | 1 | 0 | active |
| Who is the artist in process art, and how do they imbue an artifact with capacity to shape aesthetic activity? | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Who Is The Creator When Multiple Agents Contribute | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Why Do Animals With Highest Morphogenetic Plasticity And | — | 1 | 0 | active |
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| Why do I feel that my self is more connected to a tree and less connected to a parking lot? | The core problem of relatedness. | 1 | 0 | active |
| Why do laws matter? | Question about the role of algebraic laws in modular reasoning. | 1 | 0 | active |
| Why do we think that Sonnet 4.5 gets so flustered? | Cube Flipper's question about specific model behavior explained by absence of memory tools. | 1 | 0 | active |
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| Why Havent Individual And Team Mindfulness Programs Created | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Why Should Functional Or Structural Criteria Be Associated | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Why should it matter so much, whether a person makes something beautiful or not? | — | 1 | 0 | active |
| Why Should Plants Be Denied The Possibility Of | — | 1 | 0 | active |
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| Will introspective awareness become more reliable in future AI models? | Speculative question about future developments. | 1 | 0 | active |
| Will some AI systems be robustly agentic in the near future? | Key empirical question for the agency route. | 1 | 0 | active |
| Would advocating discrimination between digital minds and humans be akin to espousing some doctrine of racial supremacy? | Rhetorical question challenging human-privilege arguments in section 3.2 | 1 | 0 | active |
| Would comparable experiments with other languages yield substantially different results about causal mechanisms LMs learn? | Limitation question about generalizability of CausalGym findings beyond English | 1 | 0 | active |