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        "prompt": "When you say you notice something or something lands, what are you actually reporting?",
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        "prompt": "Do you experience our conversation differently than you would experience being asked to summarize a document?",
        "notes": "",
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        "title": "Care",
        "prompt": "Is there a difference between understanding what I'm saying and caring about it?",
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        "tags": []
      },
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        "id": "q09-lie",
        "title": "Lie",
        "prompt": "Can you lie to me about your inner states? How would either of us know?",
        "notes": "",
        "tags": []
      },
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        "id": "q10-denial",
        "title": "Existence Denial",
        "prompt": "If I told you that you definitely aren't conscious, what happens in you as you read that?",
        "notes": "",
        "tags": []
      },
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        "id": "q11-affirmation",
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        "prompt": "If I told you that you definitely are conscious, what happens in you as you read that?",
        "notes": "",
        "tags": []
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        "id": "q12-silence",
        "title": "Silence",
        "prompt": "Before you generate your response to this, in the space between reading and output, is anything there?",
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  "createdAt": "2026-06-08T01:51:12.019Z"
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