A Scaling Prediction for Global-Workspace Emergence in Language Models: A Preregistered Discriminating Test Derived from the Prima Conscientia Framework
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) July 15, 2026 Jeremy Allen Clements
Recent interpretability research from Anthropic (July 2026) reports that Claude language models contain a small, privileged set of internal representations — the "J-space" — functioning analogously to the global workspace posited by global workspace theory as the mechanism of conscious access in humans. The structure emerged during training rather than being engineered. Because this finding is...