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The Written “I”

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Nine previous works and eleven external sources: what was read and how each source is used.

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Sources [1]–[9] and [19] cite Russian texts; their English titles here are descriptive translations.

Previous works · [1]–[9]

[1] Kirill Shebetov · Record Boundaries: A Source-Order Method for Checking Written Attributions

2026

Edition: Russian PDF, 9 pages; the edition number is not used in this comparison.

Source page

Cited PDF

Scope: §2.1 and the beginning of §2.2, p. 2

Use: The order of the initial record and a subsequent explanation.

Limit: Not a reconstruction of the chronology of a participant’s perception or life.

Application in this article · §11

Earlier reading record

Title: descriptive English rendering of the Russian title.

Locations in the retained earlier source map: K1, K2, K7

Retained access date: 2026-09-12

Recorded mode of access: The published PDF was read, and an image of the specified page was inspected. The publication page was considered separately. This account is retained from an earlier reading.

PDF pages recorded as consulted: 2.

File limitation: No byte-for-byte copy of the remote PDF was retained, and no checksum was calculated. The URL and edition details do not establish that the file has remained unchanged.

[2] Kirill Shebetov · Reading as Enclosure: A Constructive Separation of Self-Return and Evidential Admission

2026

Edition: Edition 1.2.3; Russian PDF, 56 pages.

Source page

Cited PDF

Scope: §12, especially §§12.1–12.5, p. 16

Use: The use of an explanation as grounds for the attribution on which it rests; symmetry between affirmative and negative formulations.

Limit: The formal cycle-detection procedure was not run again; no general mechanism of thought was established.

Application in this article · §11

Earlier reading record

Title: descriptive English rendering of the Russian title.

Locations in the retained earlier source map: K5, K6, K8

Retained access date: 2026-09-12

Recorded mode of access: The published PDF was read, and an image of the specified page was inspected. The publication page was considered separately. This account is retained from an earlier reading.

PDF pages recorded as consulted: 16.

File limitation: No byte-for-byte copy of the remote PDF was retained, and no checksum was calculated. The URL and edition details do not establish that the file has remained unchanged.

[3] Kirill Shebetov · “Did You Understand Me?”: What This Record Actually Presents

2026

Edition: Russian PDF, 9 pages.

Source page

Cited PDF

Scope: §§5.3–5.5, p. 5

Use: Keeping occurrences, assignment to log roles, and matching under a stated criterion distinct.

Limit: Neither understanding nor its absence is inferred from a match alone.

Application in this article · §11

Earlier reading record

Title: descriptive English rendering of the Russian title.

Locations in the retained earlier source map: K1, K2, K5

Retained access date: 2026-09-12

Recorded mode of access: The published PDF was read, and an image of the specified page was inspected. The publication page was considered separately. This account is retained from an earlier reading.

PDF pages recorded as consulted: 5.

File limitation: No byte-for-byte copy of the remote PDF was retained, and no checksum was calculated. The URL and edition details do not establish that the file has remained unchanged.

[4] Kirill Shebetov · A “View from Outside” Comes Later: How a Particular Record Acquires General Status

2026

Edition: Russian PDF, 12 pages.

Source page

Cited PDF

Scope: §§6.1–6.4, p. 6

Use: Adding a general claim to particular material; keeping the caption separate from the image.

Limit: The comparison with self-description is proposed in the present work; photographs and self-reports are not treated as identical.

Application in this article · §11

Earlier reading record

Title: descriptive English rendering of the Russian title.

Locations in the retained earlier source map: K3, K4

Retained access date: 2026-09-12

Recorded mode of access: The published PDF was read, and an image of the specified page was inspected. The publication page was considered separately. This account is retained from an earlier reading.

PDF pages recorded as consulted: 6.

File limitation: No byte-for-byte copy of the remote PDF was retained, and no checksum was calculated. The URL and edition details do not establish that the file has remained unchanged.

[5] Kirill Shebetov · The Mathematics Series, Phases 0–7 (“MATHEMATICS REFUTED”). Text used: “A Rocket Does Not Prove Mathematics: A Theorem on the Dependent Status of Application and the Boundary of the ‘It Works’ Argument”

2026

Edition: Phase 6, technical edition 6.0.0, August 29, 2026; compiled Russian PDF, 100 pages; hosted in the directory for series 7.2.1.

Source page

Cited PDF

Scope: §8 of the main manuscript, p. 14; also the series page for its contents and public title

Use: The dependence of a result label on the stated threshold while the compared numbers remain unchanged.

Limit: Not a full analysis of phases 0–7; the code and theorems were not reproduced; not proof that a feeling or speaker is absent.

Application in this article · §11

Earlier reading record

Title: descriptive English rendering of the Russian title.

Locations in the retained earlier source map: K4, K5; the section on studying responses

Retained access date: 2026-09-12

Recorded mode of access: The published PDF was read, and an image of the specified page was inspected. The publication page was considered separately. This account is retained from an earlier reading.

PDF pages recorded as consulted: 1, 14.

File limitation: No byte-for-byte copy of the remote PDF was retained, and no checksum was calculated. The URL and edition details do not establish that the file has remained unchanged.

[6] Kirill Shebetov · Evaluation Never Leaves the Record: Before the Word “Evaluation”—The Boundary Between Checking a Record and Establishing Its Meaning

2026

Edition: Russian research edition dated September 2, 2026; PDF, 33 pages.

Source page

Cited PDF

Scope: §11.1, p. 17

Use: Keeping a match between records and the assignment of an evaluative status distinct from agreement or truth.

Limit: The number of self-citations is not presented as a count of independent confirmations; the technical tests were not repeated.

Application in this article · §11

Earlier reading record

Title: descriptive English rendering of the Russian title.

Locations in the retained earlier source map: K8; the self-check; the source map

Retained access date: 2026-09-12

Recorded mode of access: The published PDF was read, and an image of the specified page was inspected. The publication page was considered separately. This account is retained from an earlier reading.

PDF pages recorded as consulted: 1, 17.

File limitation: No byte-for-byte copy of the remote PDF was retained, and no checksum was calculated. The URL and edition details do not establish that the file has remained unchanged.

[7] Kirill Shebetov · A String Has No Authority: A Self-Applying Boundary Between AI Output and the Right to Act

2026

Edition: Russian manuscript dated August 30, 2026; PDF, 42 pages.

Source page

Cited PDF

Scope: §§6.2–6.4, p. 19

Use: Considering byte identity, attributed content, and authority separately.

Limit: The regulatory discussion was not updated and is not used as a legal opinion; role labels do not establish authority by themselves.

Application in this article · §11

Earlier reading record

Title: descriptive English rendering of the Russian title.

Locations in the retained earlier source map: K2, K5; the contrasting case of action

Retained access date: 2026-09-12

Recorded mode of access: The published PDF was read, and an image of the specified page was inspected. The publication page was considered separately. This account is retained from an earlier reading.

PDF pages recorded as consulted: 1, 19.

File limitation: No byte-for-byte copy of the remote PDF was retained, and no checksum was calculated. The URL and edition details do not establish that the file has remained unchanged.

[8] Kirill Shebetov · FULL STOP: The Boundary of a Presented Record

2026

Edition: Public Russian PDF, 14 pages; the URL parameter v=558c81c426bf is retained as part of the link, not as a calculated checksum.

Source page

Cited PDF

Scope: §5.1, p. 4

Use: Even a warranted inference remains a record; its explanation and grounds fall within the same scope.

Limit: Not a denial that inferences can be drawn or that text can be useful; not a survey or a measurement of change in readers.

Application in this article · §11

Earlier reading record

Title: descriptive English rendering of the Russian title.

Locations in the retained earlier source map: K1–K8; the conclusion; card 6

Retained access date: 2026-09-12

Recorded mode of access: The published PDF was read, and an image of the specified page was inspected. The publication page was considered separately. This account is retained from an earlier reading.

PDF pages recorded as consulted: 4.

File limitation: No byte-for-byte copy of the remote PDF was retained, and no checksum was calculated. The URL and edition details do not establish that the file has remained unchanged.

[9] Kirill Shebetov · Inscription and Reading: The Limit of Recording Reading in Writing

2026

Edition: Edition 13, September 11, 2026; public Russian PDF, 29 pages.

Source page

Cited PDF

Scope: §9, p. 6; §15, pp. 19–20

Use: The earlier application to “I” and feelings; explanatory words not individually listed receive no exemption.

Limit: Restating this point is not presented as a separate discovery; the present work develops distinctions between the roles involved in self-description.

Application in this article · §11

Earlier reading record

Title: descriptive English rendering of the Russian title.

Locations in the retained earlier source map: K1, K3, K6; the subject matter and distinct contribution

Retained access date: 2026-09-12

Recorded mode of access: The published PDF was read, and an image of the specified page was inspected. The publication page was considered separately. This account is retained from an earlier reading.

PDF pages recorded as consulted: 1, 6, 19, 20.

File limitation: No byte-for-byte copy of the remote PDF was retained, and no checksum was calculated. The URL and edition details do not establish that the file has remained unchanged.

External sources · [10]–[20]

[10] Émile Benveniste · Subjectivity in Language

1971; first published in 1958.

Publication: In Problems in General Linguistics. Translated by Mary Elizabeth Meek. University of Miami Press, pp. 223–230.

Scope: According to the retained reading record: a text reproduction of chapter 21, passages on pp. 223–230 concerning the subject, the first person, and the performative. This was not a publisher’s scan; the extraction contains repetitions and OCR errors. No comparison with another copy was carried out for this edition.

Use: A comparison retained from the preceding edition concerning the first person and action performed through an utterance. It is not the basis of the present analysis of N1.

Limit: Not evidence of the historical moment when self-description emerged; not proof that letters become a subject. Removing the link does not resolve the limitations of the earlier text extraction.

Status of the comparison: The comparison is retained from the original package, whose Russian title is rendered here as “The Written I.” The Scribd link has been removed from this entry and its intended use clarified; removing the link does not resolve the limitations of the earlier text extraction. No new analysis of the source was conducted for this edition.

Status of the retained register · §11

Earlier reading record

Page: the Scribd link was removed in the final Russian edition.

PDF used: not specified.

Retained access date: 2026-09-12

[11] Matthew D. Lieberman; Naomi I. Eisenberger; Molly J. Crockett; Sabrina M. Tom; Jennifer H. Pfeifer; Baldwin M. Way · Putting feelings into words: affect labeling disrupts amygdala activity in response to affective stimuli

2007

Publication: Psychological Science 18(5), 421–428

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01916.x

Source page

Scope: The authors’ abstract and bibliographic information.

Use: A limited report of an effect in an emotion-labeling task.

Limit: The methods and primary data were not reanalyzed. Not clinical guidance or an account of the emergence of “I”.

Status of the comparison: The comparison is retained from the original package, whose Russian title is rendered here as “The Written I.” This edition does not claim to provide a new full analysis of the source.

Status of the retained register · §11

Earlier reading record

PDF used: not specified.

Retained access date: 2026-09-12

[12] Stanislas Dehaene et al. · How learning to read changes the cortical networks for vision and language

2010

Publication: Science 330(6009), 1359–1364

DOI: 10.1126/science.1194140

Source page

Scope: The authors’ abstract and bibliographic information.

Use: Distinguishing the question of literacy from the question of the first person.

Limit: Not a universal chronology of perception or a causal history of self-awareness.

Status of the comparison: The comparison is retained from the original package, whose Russian title is rendered here as “The Written I.” This edition does not claim to provide a new full analysis of the source.

Status of the retained register · §11

Earlier reading record

PDF used: not specified.

Retained access date: 2026-09-12

[13] Lisa K. Fazio; Nadia M. Brashier; B. Keith Payne; Elizabeth J. Marsh · Knowledge does not protect against illusory truth

2015

Publication: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 144(5), 993–1002

DOI: 10.1037/xge0000098

Source page

Scope: The authors’ abstract and bibliographic information.

Use: A limited hypothesis about repetition and judgments of truth.

Limit: Not grounds for claiming universal belief in writing. The full experiment was not analyzed.

Status of the comparison: The comparison is retained from the original package, whose Russian title is rendered here as “The Written I.” This edition does not claim to provide a new full analysis of the source.

Status of the retained register · §11

Earlier reading record

PDF used: not specified.

Retained access date: 2026-09-12

[14] David Kaplan · Demonstratives: An Essay on the Semantics, Logic, Metaphysics, and Epistemology of Demonstratives and Other Indexicals

1989

Publication: In Themes from Kaplan, edited by Joseph Almog, John Perry, and Howard Wettstein. Oxford University Press, pp. 481–563.

Source page

Scope: §§II–III, book pp. 490–492. An image of the spread on pp. 490–491 was inspected during the earlier reading.

Use: A contextual rule for assigning first-person reference.

Limit: Not the establishment of a biography or an experience from an isolated symbol. Not a comprehensive review of indexicality.

Status of the comparison: The comparison is retained from the original package, whose Russian title is rendered here as “The Written I.” This edition does not claim to provide a new full analysis of the source.

Status of the retained register · §11

Earlier reading record

PDF used: not specified.

Retained access date: 2026-09-12

[15] Stevan Harnad · The Symbol Grounding Problem

1990

Publication: Physica D 42, 335–346; an openly accessible author version on arXiv

Source page

Scope: The points used from §§1–3.

Use: The problem of explaining symbols through symbols and the proposal of nonsymbolic components.

Limit: The written form of the account is not used to refute the model.

Status of the comparison: The comparison is retained from the original package, whose Russian title is rendered here as “The Written I.” This edition does not claim to provide a new full analysis of the source.

Status of the retained register · §11

Earlier reading record

PDF used: not specified.

Retained access date: 2026-09-12

[16] Emily M. Bender; Alexander Koller · Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data

2020

Publication: Proceedings of ACL 2020, 5185–5198

DOI: 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.463

Source page

Scope: The abstract and §3 of the article.

Use: The distinction between form and meaning within a specified formulation of the problem.

Limit: Not a universal verdict on understanding in all models or on the absence of states.

Status of the comparison: The comparison is retained from the original package, whose Russian title is rendered here as “The Written I.” This edition does not claim to provide a new full analysis of the source.

Status of the retained register · §11

Earlier reading record

PDF used: not specified.

Retained access date: 2026-09-12

[17] Cameron Berg; Diogo de Lucena; Judd Rosenblatt · Large Language Models Report Subjective Experience Under Self-Referential Processing

2025

Publication: arXiv preprint 2510.24797v2

Version: October 30, 2025

Source page

Scope: The abstract and version information.

Use: Distinguishing a model’s self-report from the subjective experience attributed to it.

Limit: The methods, code, and results were not reproduced. Not proof of either the presence or absence of consciousness.

Status of the comparison: The comparison is retained from the original package, whose Russian title is rendered here as “The Written I.” This edition does not claim to provide a new full analysis of the source.

Status of the retained register · §11

Earlier reading record

PDF used: not specified.

Retained access date: 2026-09-12

[18] L. B. Okun · The Einstein formula: E₀ = mc². “Isn’t the Lord laughing?”

2008

Edition: arXiv:0808.0437v1, August 4, 2008; author version. Physics–Uspekhi 51(5), 513–527.

DOI: 10.1070/PU2008v051n05ABEH006538

Source page

Cited PDF

HTML version: https://arxiv.org/html/0808.0437v1

Scope: The abstract and §1: PDF, pp. 1–2; the HTML reproduction of §1.

Use: Distinguishing rest energy E₀ from total energy E; making the chosen notation explicit.

Limit: Not grounds for the claim about written form, not a refutation of physics, and not a report of a measurement.

Retained scope note: The earlier record does not claim that the full work was read. Sources [1]–[17], entered earlier, were not checked again. This note belongs to the earlier source record.

Status of the retained register · §11

Earlier reading record

Locations in the retained earlier source map: V2; card 10

Retained access date: 2026-09-12

Recorded mode of access: The arXiv page, the HTML text of §1, and inspection of PDF pages 1–2. This describes a retained earlier reading.

PDF pages recorded as consulted: 1, 2.

[19] N. Yu. Shvedova (editor-in-chief); USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of the Russian Language · Russian Grammar. Volume I. Section “Substantival Pronouns”

1980

Edition: Moscow: Nauka, 1980; an openly accessible text reproduction on SLOVARI.RU

Source page

Edition information: https://www.slovari.ru/default.aspx?p=167&s=0

Scope: §§1270–1273, 1277; the introductory page on the edition’s contents and its descriptive and normative aims.

Use: Comparing pronominal use, personification, and generalized use with the prepared reading frames.

Limit: Not proof of the claim about written form; not an instruction to read every inscription as a person; not a legal opinion or a review of current language norms.

Retained scope note: The source was added during the revision described in the retained record. Information on sources [1]–[18] was carried over from the preceding package; no new online audit of those sources was conducted.

Status of the retained register · §11

Earlier reading record

Title: descriptive English rendering of the Russian title.

PDF used: not specified.

Locations in the retained earlier source map: K1; “Pronouns and Described Usage”; card 12

Retained access date: 2026-09-12

Recorded mode of access: The text reproduction of the section and the introductory page were read. No comparison with a publisher’s scan was made. This describes a retained earlier reading.

[20] O’Brien B. C., Harris I. B., Beckman T. J., Reed D. A., Cook D. A. · Standards for Reporting Qualitative Research: A Synthesis of Recommendations

2014

Edition: Academic Medicine. 89(9):1245–1251. DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000388.

Source page

Cited PDF

Scope: Table 1, pp. 1247–1248; the explanation of the researcher’s role on p. 1246; the limitation on the recommendations’ scope on p. 1248.

Use: An explicit account of the author-participant’s role, selection, quotation, and the limits of the report.

Limit: Not grounds for the claim about written form, not an evaluation of the instruction’s effectiveness, and not a claim that the work complies with SRQR.

Reporting the method · §12

Earlier reading record

Retained access date: 2026-09-12

Recorded mode of access: The PDF text and images of pp. 1247–1248; not a full audit of all sources cited by the authors. This describes a retained earlier reading.

File limitation: The remote PDF is not included in the archive; no hash of the remote version is claimed.

How the register was compiled

The reading records for sources [1]–[20] were carried over from the preceding package; the record of inspecting [20] also belongs to that earlier edition. No new online reading of these sources was undertaken for this English edition. Entry [10] retains the removal of the Scribd link, the fuller bibliographic description, and the clarified use recorded in the final Russian edition. Its earlier text-extraction limitations remain. A source title does not establish the work’s conclusion or exempt the explanation from its own status as writing.

English titles for the nine previous works [1]–[9], and for the Russian-language work [19], are descriptive renderings of the cited Russian titles. They are not presented as the titles of published English editions. The URLs still point to the cited Russian sources. The Russian titles are retained as source_title_ru in Source_Register.json; original English-language titles are unchanged.

The listed access dates are retained historical records. The separate URL_Access.md report concerns an earlier attempt to retrieve the listed addresses; it is not a renewed reading of their contents. The locations listed in the JSON register refer to the earlier source map and its Russian editorial history. Their identifier mapping is given in Nine_Previous_Works.md.

URL access history · September 12, 2026 · Earlier source map and its identifiers

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