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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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