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External Commentary on the Global Workspace Paper

Dehaene, Naccache, Butlin, Long, Plunkett, Shiller, Nanda et al. · Jul 6, 2026

Independent responses collected by Anthropic, including the neuroscientists whose theory is being tested (Dehaene, Naccache) and AI-consciousness researchers (Butlin, Long of Eleos, Shiller of Rethink Priorities, Nanda of DeepMind). The most useful counterweight to the headline: where does the analogy to human conscious access hold, and where does it break?

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