Experiments

Complete. Testing whether a large body of machine-readable meaning carries a fractal fingerprint — every threshold frozen before the data was touched. Two tests confirmed, three came back negative, and the negatives are the finding.

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Training small language models from scratch on contemplative literature — Pali Canon suttas and transcribed dharma talks — crossed against contemplative architecture modifications, to test whether either changes model behavior in measurable ways.

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Whether simple agents following only local rules develop group behavior nobody programmed — and whether it arrives suddenly, as a phase transition, rather than gradually. Includes a proposed test for telling real emergence from mere aggregation.

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Testing whether grounding language in simulated sensory and motor experience produces word and sentence representations with qualitatively different computational properties than text-only training.

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Using Conway's Game of Life as a calibration bench for emergence detectors — testing whether compression ratio and integrated information (Phi) can rank pattern classes correctly on a substrate where the right answer is not in doubt.

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Directly testing Integrated Information Theory predictions about consciousness in neural network architectures of varying structure, measuring Phi across different topologies and training regimens.

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Adversarial validation of consciousness markers — training a generator to imitate the signatures of consciousness, then finding which markers resist faking. The imitation-resistant ones are the measurements worth trusting.

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