A new research paper from Anthropic hypothesizes that there’s an internal “workspace” within the operations of the Claude LLM. The significance the paper is groping toward is that this so-called “J-Space” inside Claude is sort of like one leading idea about human consciousness—global workspace theory. The J-Space, according to my reading of the paper, is an ostensibly brain-like separation between something more like automatic data-crunching in the backgro