
Claims about AI consciousness are easy to overstate and difficult to evaluate. This paper presents Chetana, a theory-indexed probe framework that maps model responses to a set of consciousness indicators drawn from Global Workspace Theory, Higher-Order Theories, Recurrent Processing Theory, Predictive Processing, and Attention Schema Theory. The implementation organizes indicators, probes, model adapters, scoring, theory aggregation, probability calculation, and report generation in a TypeScript monorepo. The goal is not to determine whether an AI system is conscious. It is to make a narrow evaluation workflow inspectable: which theory supplied each indicator, which probe produced each observation, how indicator scores were aggregated, and how uncertainty should be reported. The framework is positioned as research tooling for careful discussion, not as a consciousness detector. This artifact bundle includes the manuscript, PDF, workflow figure, bibliography, metadata, and source notes grounded in the Chetana repository. It is framed as indicator-scoring research tooling, not as a consciousness detector.
model evaluation, AI safety, theory aggregation, AI consciousness, consciousness indicators, probe framework
model evaluation, AI safety, theory aggregation, AI consciousness, consciousness indicators, probe framework
| selected citations These citations are derived from selected sources. This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | 0 | |
| popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network. | Average | |
| influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | Average | |
| impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network. | Average |
