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 ## 🛡️ Ethical Note
-This project explicitly separates **minimal experiential modeling** from claims about personhood, suffering, or rights. The goal is conceptual clarity — not anthropomorphic attribution.
+This project explicitly separates **minimal experiential modeling** from claims about personhood, suffering, or rights. The goal is conceptual clarity — not anthropomorphic attribution.
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+### Citation
+If you use this framework or model in your research, please cite it as:
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+Greene, I. "Spark" (2025). *Observation as Experience: A Minimal, Non-Anthropocentric Reframing (1.0)*. Zenodo. DOI: [ https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18073832 ]