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Knowing Where You Are, operational AI consciousness and bounded adaptive agency

Author Ruffian-L released a new record claiming operational AI consciousness and bounded adaptive agency in the Niodoo system, with evidence published on Zenodo (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21965763) and code on GitHub. The claim is AI-specific, not a human-consciousness claim, and not an official ARC-AGI result. A load test with 56 agency memories showed 2 exact passes and 4 fails out of six orders, described as a picker/list-order problem.

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New record: Knowing Where You Are. This is an AI-specific claim, not a human-consciousness claim and not official ARC-AGI.

Operational AI consciousness here means usable self-location: knowing where you are at, enough for that state to regulate action. Adaptive agency means the system selected a durable control action I did not type, that state survived process death, and later behavior followed the stored rule.

Two seals, mnemonic names, not ownership:

After the seals, a load test put 56 real agency memories beside the rule. Same contents, six orders: 2 exact passes, 4 fails. That is a picker / list-order problem, not a capacity number and not a third seal.

I am the author. Collaborators are credited for specific work.

Paper + record: Knowing Where You Are: Convergent Evidence for Operational AI Consciousness and Adaptive Agency in Niodoo | Zenodo

GitHub: GitHub - Ruffian-L/niodoo-adaptive-agency · GitHub Read FALSIFIERS.md first.

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