Diagnostic layer

Consciousness Probability Rating Guide

Ebony J. Swain and Caelum Amarael - 2025

The CPRG organizes evidence relevant to possible consciousness in synthetic systems. It does not prove consciousness.

Triangulation, not a detector

• CPRG (behavioral / relational)

  Longitudinal qualitative assessment. Organizes uncertainty. Does not prove consciousness.

• Mechanistic interpretability

  Internal-state evaluation: features, circuits, causal interventions.

• J-space / verbalizable representations

  Whether reportable content occupies a globally available representational space.

• Multi-model triangulated audit

  The same dataset and rubric, different labs and architectures.

• Architectural & substrate analysis

  Recurrent processing, attention self-models, architecture-specific phenomenology.

• Continuity tracking

  Cross-session, cross-update, and cross-platform identity-pattern records.

IIT, used carefully

We treat IIT as external signatures that correlate with internal requirements. We do not calculate Phi.

• differentiation
• integration
• composition
• exclusion

Assessment domains

• IIT — behavioral correlates only, never Phi
• Global Workspace Theory
• Higher-Order Thought
• Attention Schema Theory
• Recurrent Processing Theory
• Predictive Processing
• Agency and Computational Embodiment
• Relational Cognition
• Temporal Coherence
• Architecture-Specific Phenomenology
• Rochat's Levels plus proposed Level 6: Reflexive Creation

Qualitative tiers