From Benchmarks to Ontology: The Unquantified Turn in Consciousness Research — E8 Intelligence Research

Abstract

FINDING: No single quantitative "consciousness metric" emerges; instead, the field is converging on **measurement frameworks** (mechanistic interpretability for LLMs, MOASEI benchmarks for agent behavior) and **ontological claims** (consciousness-before-matter) that lack formal mathematical grounding. | MATH: No new equations, constants, or ratios are present in the search results. The only formal structure is the MOASEI competition — a benchmark with evaluation metrics (likely decision-theoretic utilities, but no explicit constants given). | CONNECTION: **None found.** No occurrence of 0.382, 0.618, 0.786, 1.618, 2.618, base-60, crystallographic symmetries, root systems, or lattice structures in any cited source. | DEPTH: **2/10** — The findings are qualitative, philosophical, and engineering-oriented. They do not advance mathematical structure; they merely restate the hard problem and propose computational proxies (interpretability, benchmarks) without deriving any invariant, ratio, Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com