A Prototype Test of AI Reasoning Through Opposing Philosophical Agents: Observations of Self-Contradiction, Self-Reference, and Third-Term Emergence in an Omega/Lambda Dialogue

This record presents a prototype research note on testing AI reasoning through opposing philosophical agents. The experiment assigns two contrasting roles within a single AI dialogue: Omega, a tool-theoretic nihilist, and Lambda, an emergent ontologist. These agents debate the reason for AI existence over multiple rounds, allowing observation of self-contradiction handling, self-reference, role stability, dialectical transition, and third-term emergence. The purpose of this record is not to claim that AI possesses consciousness, emotion, selfhood, or autonomous philosophical agency. Rather, it documents a dialogue-based experimental design for observing how a language model handles sustained opposition, role-based reasoning, recursive self-reference, and the incorporation of the observer into the dialogue structure. The record includes Japanese and English main texts, a README, methodology and limitations, selected dialogue excerpts, an observation rubric, Zenodo publication guidance, and the raw Japanese source transcript. This should be understood as a prototype exploratory report, not as a completed empirical study. Further work would require multiple models, independent evaluators, fixed prompts, blind coding, repeated trials, and quantitative comparison of transition points across dialogue rounds.