Out 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 our AI model, Claude.
Our experiments were inspired by a leading theory in neuroscience: the global workspace theory. It holds that a thought becomes consciously accessible when it enters a shared "workspace" that's broadcast across the brain. We found a set of representations in Claude’s neural activity that play a similar role.
Read more about the research here: https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace
0:00 The mind as an ocean
0:47 Meet the J-space
1:52 Silent math
2:22 Don't think about the bridge
3:12 Claude's automatic processing
3:42 Catching hidden thoughts
4:34 The question of consciousness
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The third AI workshop taught by our legendary teacher, Nick Sarafa. This is a full-day hands-on training workshop for purposeful co-creation with AI using Claude Code.
Imagine having access to hundreds of billions of dollars of computing power and knowing exactly how to make it work for you through the power of super intelligence.
◆ Fri 09 Oct 2026◆ KOKO Cafe, London◆ With Nick Sarafa
