Elan Barenholtz (@ebarenholtz) · AI Consciousness Opinions

Elan Barenholtz @ebarenholtz Jul 8

My initial reaction to this t.co/rDm70550sA was not strong enough. It's a lot worse. In humans, Global Workspace Theory at least describes a bottleneck through which many kinds of processing —perceptual, motor, memory— reach some sort of conscious access (really just

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Elan Barenholtz @ebarenholtz Jul 8

Skeptical

Much commotion about this new Anthropic paper, and it's legitimately interesting work. But they are playing coy with quasi-philosophical claims that are not justified by the results. By framing the results in the language of "access consciousness," Anthropic is, deliberately or

Anthropic @AnthropicAI Jul 6

New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models. Of everything happening in your brain right now, only a tiny fraction is consciously accessible—thoughts you can describe, hold in mind, and reason with. We found a strikingly similar divide inside Claude.

This evidence settles nothing

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Cube Flipper @cube_flipper Jul 8

indeed, Global Workspace Theory doesn't say anything about phenomenal consciousness

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