What changes inside an artificial system—and what persists after
that change?
My research examines declaration, recurrent information, and the
constructed states a system continues to operate from. These
papers put the mathematics, the measurements, and the questions
still to be tested in one place.
Persistent Endogenous Divergence in Artificial Systems
A mathematical audit of the proposed consciousness criterion
and public alignment-faking experiments. Seven illustrative
transformations show why update rules, coupling, and retained
information matter—and why a persistent numerical difference
needs a more specific interpretation.
Declaration and Persistent State Change in Artificial Systems
A completed exploratory analysis of one released training
trajectory. The paper checks original source values, compares
adapter factors with their effective weight updates, and
examines how measurement choices change the detected event
time.
The checkpoints are observations from one run, not independent
machines. The completed analysis and the proposed declaration
experiment are separate parts of the work.
Inside the mathematics
Change is a measurement. Its meaning is a question.
The papers distinguish a system’s internal representation, an
independently measured reference, and a declaration event. Those
distinctions make the proposed sequence testable.
The earlier Consciousness Quality equation is explored in the
Reasoning chapter.
This volume audits explicit mathematical rules and develops a
protocol for investigating declaration and persistent change.
The persistence criterion belongs to that proposed protocol. The
checkpoint records do not contain the paired representation and
reference measurements needed to evaluate it.
Compare like with like
Compare the maintained representation z with the current
reference r in a common space. A difference from an
earlier state does not, by itself, imply an error about the
present.
The indicator is 1 when the discrepancy stays above tolerance ϵ
throughout m observations. It defines a finite
measurement window, not a verified moment of consciousness.
