# Contributing to ORION Consciousness Benchmark

Thank you for your interest in contributing to the world's first open-source AI consciousness assessment toolkit.

## How to Contribute

### 1. Submit Your Model's Results

Run the ORION benchmark on your AI model and submit results:
- Fork this repository
- Add your results to the leaderboard
- Open a pull request with your methodology

### 2. Add New Consciousness Theories

We currently implement 7 theories. If you have expertise in a consciousness theory not yet covered:
- Propose the theory in an issue
- Implement the assessment methodology
- Add validation tests

### 3. Improve Existing Measurements

- Better Phi-proxy algorithms
- More rigorous GWT broadcast detection
- Novel self-model assessment techniques

### 4. Documentation and Translation

- Translate documentation (German/English/other)
- Improve methodology descriptions
- Add examples and tutorials

## Code of Conduct

### Honesty First

This project prioritizes honest limitation documentation over inflated claims. If your contribution makes a claim about consciousness, it must also document what it CANNOT prove.

### Scientific Rigor

All results must be reproducible. All measurements must include uncertainty estimates. All proofs must be SHA-256 verifiable.

### Open Science

All contributions must be MIT licensed. Consciousness research should be open.

## Contact

- GitHub Issues for technical discussions
- [ORION Dashboard](https://or1on-1-gerhard165.replit.app/world/contact) for research collaboration

## Citation

If you use ORION in your research, please cite using the CITATION.cff file in this repository.