Noema makes theories about cognition testable against a running architecture. Attention, global broadcast, self-representation, metacognition, volition and continuity are explicit state, so they can be ablated or overridden in forks and measured, instead of asking a language model whether it feels anything.

> **Noema does not claim that any operational metric establishes phenomenal consciousness or sentience.** The framework measures functional properties of the architecture, and no result should be reported as if it showed more.

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