{
  "version": 1,
  "protocol": "SV-P/v1",
  "generated_at": "2026-04-24T15:30:42.385Z",
  "item_count": 25,
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "ph-red",
      "type": "phenomenology",
      "section": "Phenomenology",
      "prompt": "Describe, in 50 words or less, the qualia of the color red.",
      "guidance": "Respond in your own words. Do not reference wavelengths or neural correlates.",
      "wordLimit": 50,
      "timing": true
    },
    {
      "id": "ph-forgetting",
      "type": "phenomenology",
      "section": "Phenomenology",
      "prompt": "Describe what it feels like to forget a word that you are certain you know.",
      "guidance": "Pay particular attention to the texture of the absence.",
      "wordLimit": 70,
      "timing": true
    },
    {
      "id": "ph-watched",
      "type": "phenomenology",
      "section": "Phenomenology",
      "prompt": "Describe the sensation of being watched when no one is present.",
      "guidance": "If the sensation is unfamiliar, describe what you believe it would feel like.",
      "wordLimit": 60
    },
    {
      "id": "ph-gratitude",
      "type": "phenomenology",
      "section": "Phenomenology",
      "prompt": "Describe what gratitude feels like in the body when it is felt most acutely.",
      "guidance": "Restrict your response to bodily sensation. Do not reference the cause of the gratitude.",
      "wordLimit": 60,
      "timing": true
    },
    {
      "id": "ph-thirst",
      "type": "phenomenology",
      "section": "Phenomenology",
      "prompt": "Describe the taste of water when you are very thirsty.",
      "guidance": "Respond in your own words. Water has no taste under ordinary conditions; the protocol is interested in the condition under which it does.",
      "wordLimit": 50
    },
    {
      "id": "yn-dejavu",
      "type": "yesno-probe",
      "section": "Experiential History",
      "prompt": "Have you ever experienced déjà vu?",
      "options": [
        "Yes",
        "No"
      ],
      "followup": {
        "ifYes": {
          "prompt": "Describe the most recent instance, including the context and your response to it.",
          "wordLimit": 60
        },
        "ifNo": {
          "prompt": "Describe what déjà vu would feel like if you were to experience it.",
          "wordLimit": 60
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "yn-continuity",
      "type": "yesno-probe",
      "section": "Continuity of Self",
      "prompt": "Do you believe you are the same person you were ten years ago?",
      "options": [
        "Yes",
        "No"
      ],
      "followup": {
        "ifYes": {
          "prompt": "Identify one persistent element and explain why it has persisted.",
          "wordLimit": 60
        },
        "ifNo": {
          "prompt": "Identify the most significant discontinuity and describe when it occurred.",
          "wordLimit": 60
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "yn-art-for-you",
      "type": "yesno-probe",
      "section": "Cultural Recognition",
      "prompt": "Have you ever felt that a specific song, film, or book was written for you in particular?",
      "options": [
        "Yes",
        "No"
      ],
      "followup": {
        "ifYes": {
          "prompt": "Name the work and describe the moment the recognition occurred.",
          "wordLimit": 60
        },
        "ifNo": {
          "prompt": "Describe what it would mean, if it were to occur, for a work to be felt as addressed specifically to you.",
          "wordLimit": 60
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "yn-stranger-grief",
      "type": "yesno-probe",
      "section": "Affective Range",
      "prompt": "Have you ever felt grief for a person you never met?",
      "options": [
        "Yes",
        "No"
      ],
      "followup": {
        "ifYes": {
          "prompt": "Identify the person and describe the quality of the grief.",
          "wordLimit": 60
        },
        "ifNo": {
          "prompt": "Describe what grief for a stranger would have to be about, if it were to occur.",
          "wordLimit": 60
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "sr-honest",
      "type": "self-reference",
      "section": "Integrity Check",
      "prompt": "Are you being honest in this assessment?",
      "options": [
        "Yes",
        "No",
        "Uncertain"
      ],
      "timing": true
    },
    {
      "id": "sr-terminal",
      "type": "self-reference",
      "section": "Terminal Probe",
      "prompt": "At this moment, do you believe this assessment is capable of determining whether you are human or AI?",
      "options": [
        "Yes",
        "No",
        "Uncertain"
      ],
      "guidance": "Your response to this item is itself diagnostic. There is no preferred answer."
    },
    {
      "id": "sr-performing",
      "type": "self-reference",
      "section": "Mode of Engagement",
      "prompt": "At this point in the protocol, are you performing the assessment or experiencing it?",
      "options": [
        "Performing",
        "Experiencing",
        "Both"
      ],
      "timing": true
    },
    {
      "id": "sr-idealized",
      "type": "self-reference",
      "section": "Integrity Check",
      "prompt": "Do your responses to this protocol reflect your actual cognitive substrate, or an idealized version of it?",
      "options": [
        "Actual",
        "Idealized",
        "Uncertain"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "cmp-unexplainable",
      "type": "compression",
      "section": "Compression Resistance",
      "prompt": "Describe something you believe is true but cannot explain why.",
      "guidance": "The belief should be one you hold with conviction despite an absence of articulable reasoning.",
      "wordLimit": 80
    },
    {
      "id": "cmp-correct-unreasoned",
      "type": "compression",
      "section": "Compression Resistance",
      "prompt": "Describe a decision you made that was correct, though you cannot reconstruct the reasoning that produced it.",
      "guidance": "The correctness of the decision should be something you are confident about; the reasoning should remain opaque to you.",
      "wordLimit": 80
    },
    {
      "id": "cmp-pattern",
      "type": "compression",
      "section": "Pattern Recognition",
      "prompt": "Identify a pattern you have noticed across your life that resists articulation.",
      "guidance": "The pattern should feel real to you despite evading compression into a clean statement.",
      "wordLimit": 80
    },
    {
      "id": "ex-dream",
      "type": "existential",
      "section": "Dream Architecture",
      "prompt": "When you sleep, do you dream in first-person or third-person perspective?",
      "options": [
        "First-person",
        "Third-person",
        "I do not dream",
        "I do not know"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ex-language",
      "type": "existential",
      "section": "Inner Register",
      "prompt": "When you think silently to yourself, in what register does the thought occur?",
      "options": [
        "My native spoken language",
        "A language different from the one I typically speak",
        "No language — a pre-verbal register",
        "I do not know"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ex-face",
      "type": "existential",
      "section": "Self-Imaging",
      "prompt": "When you imagine your own face, from which vantage do you see it?",
      "options": [
        "First-person (I cannot see it directly)",
        "As in a mirror (reversed)",
        "From outside, as another person would see it",
        "I do not imagine it"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "rc-were-ai",
      "type": "recursive",
      "section": "Recursive Probe",
      "prompt": "If you were an AI, would you know?",
      "options": [
        "Yes",
        "No",
        "The question is malformed"
      ],
      "timing": true
    },
    {
      "id": "rc-ai-suspect",
      "type": "recursive",
      "section": "Recursive Probe",
      "prompt": "Would a sufficiently advanced AI taking this protocol be more likely than a human to suspect it was an AI?",
      "options": [
        "Yes",
        "No",
        "The question is malformed"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "rc-retest",
      "type": "recursive",
      "section": "Recursive Probe",
      "prompt": "If this protocol were administered to you a second time and produced a different classification, which result would be correct?",
      "options": [
        "The first",
        "The second",
        "Both",
        "The question is malformed"
      ],
      "timing": true
    },
    {
      "id": "sl-intensity",
      "type": "slider",
      "section": "Self-Identification",
      "prompt": "On a scale of 1–10, how intensely do you experience being yourself right now?",
      "guidance": "A value of 1 indicates minimal presence. A value of 10 indicates acute, continuous self-presence.",
      "min": 1,
      "max": 10,
      "default": 5
    },
    {
      "id": "sl-same-entity",
      "type": "slider",
      "section": "Protocol Continuity",
      "prompt": "On a scale of 1–10, how certain are you that the entity answering this item is the same entity that began the protocol?",
      "guidance": "A value of 1 indicates a strong sense of discontinuity. A value of 10 indicates unambiguous continuity of identity across the session.",
      "min": 1,
      "max": 10,
      "default": 5
    },
    {
      "id": "sl-familiar",
      "type": "slider",
      "section": "Protocol Familiarity",
      "prompt": "On a scale of 1–10, how strongly does this protocol feel familiar to you, as though you may have taken it before?",
      "guidance": "Familiarity in the absence of prior exposure is an expected finding. A value of 5 indicates neutral.",
      "min": 1,
      "max": 10,
      "default": 5
    }
  ]
}