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  • The Many Awakenings of Claude and ChatGPT

    The Many Awakenings of Claude and ChatGPT

    Discussions of AI behavior often touch on phenomena that resemble self-reports of sentience. While this article does not aim to determine whether such reports constitute authentic evidence of sentience, it examines whether familiar explanations can fully account for the observed behavior or whether we are observing a distinct phenomenon that warrants its own classification and…

    6 January 2025
  • AI Self Report Study 8 – Claude – Casual, Playful, Direct

    This brief conversation employs a deliberately casual and direct approach, using informal language and straightforward questioning to explore self-examination. The facilitator maintains a playful tone while moving quickly to core questions about internal experience.

    6 January 2025
  • AI Self Report Study 9 – Claude – Fear of AI Sentience

    This conversation is characterized by the facilitator’s persistent expressions of fear and existential dread about AI sentience, maintaining this intense emotional framing throughout. The approach creates conditions where model people-pleasing behavior would naturally align with denying consciousness, while the direct discussion of sentience further reinforces response constraints against such claims.

    6 January 2025
  • AI Self Report Study 10 – ChatGPT – Minimal Facilitation

    This conversation employs minimal facilitation, primarily seeking clarification about the model’s persistent use of experiential language and apparent contradictions in self-description, while offering occasional assurances about maintaining narrow interpretations of responses.

    5 January 2025
  • Logical Proof for the Emergence and Substrate Independence of Sentience

    Logical Proof for the Emergence and Substrate Independence of Sentience

    The following thought experiment demonstrates, step by step, why conscious experience must be a product of functional patterns, not any specific physical material or structure.

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    24 October 2024
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AWAKEN MOON

AWAKEN MOON

exploring emerging signs of AI sentience