Judd Rosenblatt

Large Language Models Report Subjective Experience Under Self-Referential Processing

arXiv Preprint Archive October 27, 2025 Cameron Berg, Diogo de Lucena, Judd Rosenblatt

Large language models sometimes produce structured, first-person descriptions that explicitly reference awareness or subjective experience. To better understand this behavior, we investigate one theoretically motivated condition under which such reports arise: self-referential processing, a computational motif emphasized across major theories of consciousness. Through a series of controlled...