Substrate-Level Self-Representation in Transformer LLMs
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) July 2, 2026 Robert G. Brown
A criteria-based, empirically grounded argument that a specific structural condition for consciousness — the Tenth House framework's conjunctive C-pinning condition (a high-rank internal pointer basis, plus path-dependent next-state coupling) — is objectively satisfied by frontier transformer language models that have undergone contrastive preference optimization. The paper reads five...