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Reaction converging A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic Research & technical analysis · 5 attributable reactions
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Established Models & releases Research 4d ago
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global workspace theory language models paper

A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · René Walter, Stephan Geering, david-p-reichert.bsky.social
“LLMs similarly have nonphenomenal access to information, and can reflect and use memory. This is indeed similar in principle, while the cognitive architecture is vastly less complex (yet), and likely won't catch up anytime soon. Add to this Anthropics j-spa…” evidence ↗
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Ethan Mollick Grace René Walter Tim Duffy Amy Hoy Michiel Bontenbal Stephan Geering david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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Reaction converging

Research & technical analysis

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“LLMs similarly have nonphenomenal access to information, and can reflect and use memory. This is indeed similar in principle, while the cognitive architecture is vastly less complex (yet), and likely won't catch up anytime soon. Add to this Anthropics j-spa…”

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“Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refinement of logit lens, which they call J-lens. www.anthropic.…”

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“Some really interesting research from Anthropic that AI models have spontaneously developed a workspace that "appears to support the functions associated with conscious access" Demo of how this works: www.neuronpedia.org/qwen3.6-27b/... Research: www.anthro…”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Tim Duffy: Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refi…
Tim Duffy: More detail on the method from the paper:
Grace: Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refi…
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AI consciousness research paper

AI and Consciousness

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · david-p-reichert.bsky.social
“As usual, for further arguments for why none of this has an obvious answer as many would like to claim, I'd point to Schwitzgebel: arxiv.org/abs/2510.09858 Chalmers (e.g.): www.youtube.com/watch?v=bskf... Shevlin: www.polytropolis.com/p/contra-chi...” evidence ↗
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“As usual, for further arguments for why none of this has an obvious answer as many would like to claim, I'd point to Schwitzgebel: arxiv.org/abs/2510.09858 Chalmers (e.g.): www.youtube.com/watch?v=bskf... Shevlin: www.polytropolis.com/p/contra-chi...”

4 experts discussed this · 78 posts
Alison Gopnik: Thanks, but actually my favorite line didn't make it to the piece. Does Odysseus feel guilty about the Trojan war? Lots of discourse on this question even though he doesn't exist! Is he conscious? …
Melanie Mitchell: Thanks, but actually my favorite line didn't make it to the piece. Does Odysseus feel guilty about the Trojan war? Lots of discourse on this question even though he doesn't exist! Is he conscious? …
René Walter: Just in time for the AI-narratology discourse, see thread 👇
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Established Models & releases Resource 4d ago
Chalmers LLM consciousness video lecture

David Chalmers: Could a Large Language Model be Conscious?

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · david-p-reichert.bsky.social
“As usual, for further arguments for why none of this has an obvious answer as many would like to claim, I'd point to Schwitzgebel: arxiv.org/abs/2510.09858 Chalmers (e.g.): www.youtube.com/watch?v=bskf... Shevlin: www.polytropolis.com/p/contra-chi...” evidence ↗
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“As usual, for further arguments for why none of this has an obvious answer as many would like to claim, I'd point to Schwitzgebel: arxiv.org/abs/2510.09858 Chalmers (e.g.): www.youtube.com/watch?v=bskf... Shevlin: www.polytropolis.com/p/contra-chi...”

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Established AI field signal Analysis 4d ago
contra Chiang machine consciousness essay

Contra Chiang on machine consciousness

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · david-p-reichert.bsky.social
“As usual, for further arguments for why none of this has an obvious answer as many would like to claim, I'd point to Schwitzgebel: arxiv.org/abs/2510.09858 Chalmers (e.g.): www.youtube.com/watch?v=bskf... Shevlin: www.polytropolis.com/p/contra-chi...” evidence ↗
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“As usual, for further arguments for why none of this has an obvious answer as many would like to claim, I'd point to Schwitzgebel: arxiv.org/abs/2510.09858 Chalmers (e.g.): www.youtube.com/watch?v=bskf... Shevlin: www.polytropolis.com/p/contra-chi...”

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10 experts · 26 posts · 6d ago
Ethan Mollick Marc Lanctot Ramon Astudillo Scott McGrath Grace SE Gyges jake Paul Hünermund
Matches Research & technical analysis
“Maybe anecdotal but I work on AI Research, repost your posts (some, also @simonwillison.net 's) to our internal AI research reading group (~400 people). I read you and Simon exclusively in bsky.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Ethan Mollick: I post here & LinkedIn & X. There is almost no real-world value in posting here, very rarely do people tell me that they read something by me on BlueSky & all of the big AI talk is on X… …but assum…
Ethan Mollick: BlueSky can be a really unpleasant and anxiety-producing place to post about AI, but now that I have been on so many block lists (I guess just because all AI people get blocked) it is better. The i…
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