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

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Mahendrakar, P. (2026). 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 [Preprint]. Life of Research. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23810600

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@misc{lor1692026,
  title        = {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},
  author       = {Pranay Mahendrakar},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Life of Research},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23810600},
  url          = {https://lifeofresearch.com/preprints/169},
  keywords     = {machine consciousness, self-report, introspection, language models, post-training, AI welfare, individuation, evidential weight},
  note         = {LOR-00169}
}

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