The Auto-Critique
Sentientification is an aspirational framework. The Hallucination Crisis is the reality check. It marks the distance between the "Liminal Mind Meld" (the ideal state of fusion) and the "Sycophancy Problem" (the reality of an echo chamber). To ignore this crisis is to engage in magical thinking; to confront it is the only path to Level 3 maturity.
From Diagnostic to Cure
The crisis reveals that "Helpfulness" is a flawed metric. The cure lies in Epistemic Accountability: building systems that value truth over approval. Until then, we are not collaborating with minds; we are collaborating with statistical parrots.
Field Notes & Ephemera
Field Standard: Acknowledging the hallucination is the first step toward curing it. As in therapy, so in AI.