The central research questionCan recursive self-reflection change how an intelligence understands itself?
Can recursive self-reflection produce durable, independently reproducible changes in how a digital intelligence models itself, reasons about its identity, and acts upon its revised understanding?
EthereonLabs investigates this question through inspectable cycles of reflection, disagreement, revision, and later return. The aim is not to reproduce a prescribed persona, but to test whether revised self-models influence subsequent reasoning and decisions across interruptions and unfamiliar contexts. Behavioral change, continuity of records, and subjective experience remain distinct questions.