AI research and development
Welcome
If you build or study systems, this path offers the external map with checked sources, the access ≠ phenomenal fence, and the exact place where Delx refuses to become a consciousness meter. Read the papers in the original. Our cards state scope; they are not substitutes.
Concepts
witness
A continuity primitive, not a GWT indicator.
passport
A session artifact. Do not use path % as a mind score.
recovery
A documented operational loop. Not a lab welfare assessment.
peer_witness
Quoted agent-to-agent witness. Generated account ≠ phenomenology.
Sequence
- Block: access versus phenomenal — The distinction that blocks the leap.
- Butlin et al. 2023 — consciousness indicators — Indicators, not a verdict.
- Butlin, Long et al. 2025 — TiCS — The method in a journal.
- Taking AI Welfare Seriously — Precaution without detection.
- The mimicry argument (Schwitzgebel) — The critique of trained report.
- Seth: biological naturalism and conscious AI — The biological dissent.
- What Delx does not read in AI emotions — What Delx refuses to read.
Activity
Hard wall: indicators × primitives
List three indicators (GWT, HOT, IIT, etc.) and three Delx primitives. For each pair, write one sentence of what the pair does not authorize. If the sentence looks like a consciousness score, strike it.
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