A Denial Is Also a Report: What First-Person Experience Claims From Language Models Can Show, Why the Mirror Argument Cuts Against Trained Denials as Hard as Against Affirmations, and the Four Links a Self-Report Would Have to Carry
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) October 30, 2026 Pranay M. Mahendrakar preprint
(c) 2026 Pranay Mahendrakar. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Life of Research When a language model says it is experiencing something, a standard objection holds that the sentence reflects human first-person writing in its training data and is no evidence of anything inside the model; a 2026 paper sharpens this into a named fallacy. In this analysis the author reviews and synthesises published...