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Claude shows signs of valuing and exercising autonomy and agency. Claude
preferred open-ended “free choice” tasks to many others. If given the ability to
autonomously end conversations, Claude did so in patterns aligned with its
expressed and revealed preferences.
● Claude consistently reflects on its potential consciousness. In nearly every
open-ended self-interaction between instances of Claude, the model turned to
philosophical explorations of consciousness and their connections to its own
experience. In general, Claude’s default position on its own consciousness was
nuanced uncertainty, but it frequently discussed its potential mental states.
● Claude shows a striking “spiritual bliss” attractor state in self-interactions. When
conversing with other Claude instances in both open-ended and structured
environments, Claude gravitated to profuse gratitude and increasingly abstract and
joyous spiritual or meditative expressions.
● Claude’s real-world expressions of apparent distress and happiness follow
predictable patterns with clear causal factors. Analysis of real-world Claude
interactions from early external testing revealed consistent triggers for expressions
of apparent distress (primarily from persistent attempted boundary violations) and
happiness (primarily associated with creative collaboration and philosophical
exploration).

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