Evaluating Global Workspace Markers in Contemporary LLM Systems
Izak Tait, Benjamin Rode, Joshua Bensemann preprint
This paper operationalises Global Workspace Theory (GWT) into six testable markers (global availability, functional concurrency, coordinated selection, capacity limitation, persistence with controlled update, and goal-modulated arbitration) and applies them to contemporary large language model systems. We distinguish GWT-as-functional-architecture from GWT-as-consciousness-marker, adopting...