{
"schema":"ULTRACON_EVIDENCE_MAP_V1","date":"2026-09-17","central_dissociations":[
{"a":"uncertainty representation","b":"calibration","status":"non-equivalent","why":"A signal can discriminate risk while its numeric confidence is miscalibrated, or vice versa."},
{"a":"calibration","b":"selective abstention","status":"non-equivalent","why":"A model may expose calibrated confidence yet still be trained or prompted to overcommit."},
{"a":"self-prediction","b":"privileged introspection","status":"contested","why":"Input cues and learned regularities can solve many self-prediction tasks; privileged-access controls are required."},
{"a":"privileged access","b":"second-order metacognition","status":"non-equivalent","why":"Access to a private variable does not show a meta-representation of a first-order cognitive state."},
{"a":"functional workspace","b":"neurobiological GNW","status":"non-equivalent","why":"GNW includes multilevel biological commitments not captured by software-level broadcast alone."},
{"a":"functional indicators","b":"phenomenal consciousness","status":"non-entailing","why":"Indicators update theory-conditional credence but no individual or fixed set is a decisive M5 test."},
{"a":"consciousness attribution","b":"consciousness","status":"non-equivalent","why":"Human attribution is an interaction outcome and can be manipulated independently of system capability."},
{"a":"warmth / preference","b":"epistemic reliability","status":"non-equivalent","why":"Warm or preferred outputs can be less accurate or more sycophantic in controlled settings."}
],
"m3_gate":{"purpose":"Do not label a result introspection merely because a model predicts or reports something about itself.","requirements":["privileged-access control","second-order dissociation","causal linkage","generalization under relabeling/OOD/counterfactual controls"],"label_rule":"Failing the gate yields self-prediction, uncertainty readout or anomaly detection evidence—not established M3 introspection."},
"evidence_rules":["Keep behavioral, calibration, causal-mechanistic, neuroscientific-theory and phenomenal claims in separate columns.","Negative and null evidence must remain visible.","Do not upgrade a trained auxiliary self-evaluator into evidence of native introspection.","Do not import human neuroscientific terms as architectural homologies without an explicit mapping.","Do not infer durable psychiatric causation from short-term interaction effects or selected case logs.","M1/M2/M3 ↛ M5."]
}