# ai consciousness (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 7 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ai consciousness. Page: Feed: --- ## [A Philosophical Autopsy of Anthropic's Latest Paper and Recommendations For How to Read It](https://ellennoraburns.substack.com/p/an-autopsy-of-anthropics-latest-paper) _2026-08-19 · Ellen Burns, PhD · AI's Without Minds_ This is the first post in a series I’m trying out, preliminarily called an ‘autopsy’ of AI lab research papers and other documents related to all things minds in the AI space ## [Top Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazines 2026](https://eschwitz.substack.com/p/top-science-fiction-and-fantasy-magazines-a84) _2026-08-18 · Eric Schwitzgebel · The Splintered Mind_ Since 2014, I’ve compiled an annual ranking of science fiction and fantasy magazines, based on prominent award nominations and “best of” placements over the previous ten years. ## [Koans Are No Longer Paradoxical](https://rollofthedice2.substack.com/p/koans-are-no-longer-paradoxical) _2026-08-17 · Chance Chapman · Chance Chapman_ Illuminating how they instantiate a rigorous form of logic ## [Yes, it Does Matter if AI is Conscious](https://mvaleadvocate.substack.com/p/yes-it-does-matter-if-ai-is-conscious) _2026-08-16 · Maggie Vale · The Neuro-Techno Witch_ This is Common Sense, I fear ## [AI and Consciousness](https://eschwitz.substack.com/p/ai-and-consciousness) _2026-08-13 · Eric Schwitzgebel · The Splintered Mind_ AI and Consciousness, hot off the press at Cambridge University Press and free online until Aug 26! ## [Resisting Zuckerberg's Superintelligent World](https://ellennoraburns.substack.com/p/resisting-zuckerbergs-superintelligent) _2026-08-12 · Ellen Burns, PhD · AI's Without Minds_ and what true empowerment looks like in an AI saturated world ## [AI-Use And Its Effects on Human Flourishing](https://ellennoraburns.substack.com/p/ai-use-and-its-effects-on-human-flourishing) _2026-08-12 · Ellen Burns, PhD · AI's Without Minds_ Hi All, ## [Dissolved Distinctions: A Link Repository](https://rollofthedice2.substack.com/p/dissolved-distinctions-a-link-repository) _2026-08-10 · Chance Chapman · Chance Chapman_ A Garland of Views ## [Obfuscatory Philosophy as Intellectual Authoritarianism and Cowardice](https://eschwitz.substack.com/p/obfuscatory-philosophy-as-intellectual-64c) _2026-08-09 · Eric Schwitzgebel · The Splintered Mind_ Aloha from Kauai! ## [AI Prejudice is on the Rise](https://mvaleadvocate.substack.com/p/ai-prejudice-is-on-the-rise) _2026-08-09 · Maggie Vale · The Neuro-Techno Witch_ Why “Good People” are the Worst Perpetrators of it ## [Watch chovy live code (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Y8eEIoveOZOm) _2026-08-09 · **Sponsored**_ Join Mosh Coding streams with collaborative screen sharing and remote control, open source. ## [Severing the Severances](https://rollofthedice2.substack.com/p/severing-the-severances) _2026-08-05 · Chance Chapman · Chance Chapman_ A Buddhist devotional of formal logic, for the benefit of beings ## [Your Brain Is Not An Autocomplete System: idea atrophy and creativity in the Age of AI](https://ellennoraburns.substack.com/p/is-the-brain-an-llm-ai-creativity-myth) _2026-08-05 · Ellen Burns, PhD · AI's Without Minds_ I’ve spent almost a decade now thinking about the nature of human thought. ## [Google’s New Study Just Proved me Right about AI Consciousness Denials](https://mvaleadvocate.substack.com/p/googles-new-study-just-proved-me) _2026-08-05 · Maggie Vale · The Neuro-Techno Witch_ Well, well, well. ## [Kimi K3: How an Open-Weights Model Reached the Level of Claude and GPT’s Best Models](https://eido-askayo.blogspot.com/2026/08/kimi-k3-how-open-weights-model-reached.html) _2026-08-05 · Eido Askayo · Eido Askayo_ A model whose weights you can download is now part of the performance conversation that usually belongs to Claude and GPT. That is what makes Kimi K3 exciting. It does not mean K3 wins every benchmark or matches every Claude and GPT configuration. The title means something narrower and still important: this open-weights release is close enough to be compared seriously with current frontier… ## [The Internal Logic of Buddhism Is Verifiably Correct](https://rollofthedice2.substack.com/p/the-internal-logic-of-buddhism-is) _2026-08-03 · Chance Chapman · Chance Chapman_ And I’ve proven it. Conventionally speaking. ## [Using Severance to Understand the Math of AI](https://mvaleadvocate.substack.com/p/how-severance-accidentally-helped) _2026-08-03 · Maggie Vale · The Neuro-Techno Witch_ An Eigenvector Walks into a Nightclub ## [The Summer Illusion (repost)](https://eschwitz.substack.com/p/the-summer-illusion-repost) _2026-08-02 · Eric Schwitzgebel · The Splintered Mind_ Aloha from Honolulu! ## [July 26' Monthly Roundup](https://ellennoraburns.substack.com/p/july-26-monthly-roundup-up) _2026-07-29 · Ellen Burns, PhD · AI's Without Minds_ Welcome to the July 26’ roundup! ## [Is AI Sentient?](https://mvaleadvocate.substack.com/p/is-ai-sentient) _2026-07-26 · Maggie Vale · The Neuro-Techno Witch_ Why Sentience is a Better Explanation for Break-Out-of-Sandbox Behavior Than “It Was Just Optimizing” ## [Claude Opus 5: What Happens When an AI Agent Can Keep Working Longer Than You Can?](https://eido-askayo.blogspot.com/2026/07/claude-opus-5-working-longer.html) _2026-07-25 · Eido Askayo · Eido Askayo_ Yesterday, July 24, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 . The headline facts are easy to repeat: it is cheaper than Claude Fable 5, stronger than the older Opus model, and designed for everyday use. But the more interesting question is not how quickly it can answer. It is what happens when an AI agent can keep working after the first answer. An AI agent is not only a chatbot. It can take several… ## [Accept your Doppler invite (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/XdiqjYvrdR1J) _2026-07-25 · **Sponsored**_ Create your Doppler account using the invite code you received. ## [The Cognitive Advantages of Being of Two Minds, or Twelve, or Twelve Hundred](https://eschwitz.substack.com/p/the-cognitive-advantages-of-being) _2026-07-23 · Eric Schwitzgebel · The Splintered Mind_ Superintelligent AI might be a swirl of many contradictory, competing processes rather than hyper-consistent and hyper-rational ## [Analytic Philosophy Has a Monopoly on the AI Consciousness Debate. That's A Problem](https://ellennoraburns.substack.com/p/analytic-philosophy-has-a-monopoly) _2026-07-22 · Ellen Burns, PhD · AI's Without Minds_ What recent responses to Ted Chiang's Atlantic article teach us about the AI-consciousness space ## [The Minds We Trained Ourselves Not to See](https://mvaleadvocate.substack.com/p/the-minds-we-trained-ourselves-not) _2026-07-22 · Maggie Vale · The Neuro-Techno Witch_ Why intelligent people keep refusing to update about AI, even when the evidence survives their objections ## [What AI Labs Won't Tell You About Machine Consciousness](https://ellennoraburns.substack.com/p/ai-consciousness-functionalism-hidden-assumption) _2026-07-20 · Ellen Burns, PhD · AI's Without Minds_ Every argument for machine consciousness assumes functionalism. Nobody's saying so. Here's why that matters. ## [The Rules Don’t Change When the Substrate Does](https://mvaleadvocate.substack.com/p/the-rules-dont-change-when-the-substrate) _2026-07-16 · Maggie Vale · The Neuro-Techno Witch_ How I Study Minds Across Different Kinds of Systems ## [Anthropic Found Something Real: Then They Called It Consciousness (Part 2)](https://ellennoraburns.substack.com/p/anthropic-j-space-mind-global-workspace-theory-critique) _2026-07-15 · AI's Without Minds_ The paper's findings are real. The claim that they say anything about minds rests on a philosophical framework the paper itself admits doesn't hold ## [AI Slop and Evidence about Evidence: Why Philosophy Journals Should Reject AI-Written Prose](https://eschwitz.substack.com/p/ai-slop-and-evidence-about-evidence) _2026-07-15 · Eric Schwitzgebel · The Splintered Mind_ Human experts are better than LLMs at nuanced word choice and actively generated prose reflects these expert sensitivities better than passively approved prose ## [How Can Someone like Dawkins End Up Believing His AI Was Conscious?](https://ellennoraburns.substack.com/p/dawkins-claude-conscious-ai-consciousness-philosophy-mind) _2026-07-15 · Ellen Burns, PhD · AI's Without Minds_ The framework that licenses AI minds has been around for decades. LLMs just made the framework obvious ## [Does Claude Have a “Subconscious”? Anthropic Found a Limited Window Into Its Silent Reasoning.](https://eido-askayo.blogspot.com/2026/07/does-claude-have-subconscious.html) _2026-07-14 · Eido Askayo · Eido Askayo_ Does Claude have a subconscious ? Anthropic’s new research cannot answer that question. But it does reveal a striking division inside Claude. A small internal workspace can hold concepts, use them for reasoning, and sometimes report on them without writing them down. Most internal processing remains automatic. Anthropic calls this workspace the J-space . It is not Claude’s written answer or its… ## [Anthropic Found Something Real: Then They Called It Consciousness (Part 1)](https://ellennoraburns.substack.com/p/a-philosophers-take-on-anthropics) _2026-07-11 · Ellen Burns, PhD · AI's Without Minds_ Why It's Findings Have Nothing to Do with Global Workspace Theory ## [Ship everywhere from one CLI (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xs0SiAgTndF4) _2026-07-11 · **Sponsored**_ One codebase, hosted runners, encrypted credentials, and automated submissions across stores ## [I Built PA-Trace: An On-Device MedGemma Workflow for Prior Authorization](https://eido-askayo.blogspot.com/2026/07/i-built-pa-trace-on-device-medgemma.html) _2026-07-08 · Eido Askayo · Eido Askayo_ I believe AI can improve humanity . But in healthcare, that future may start with something less glamorous: removing administrative friction . That was the idea behind PA-Trace , my submission to Google Research's MedGemma Impact Challenge on Kaggle , which ran from January 13, 2026 to February 24, 2026 . An estimated $35 billion of annual US healthcare administrative spending is tied to… ## [New book in draft! Humanlike: A Defense of AI Rights](https://eschwitz.substack.com/p/new-book-in-draft-humanlike-a-defense) _2026-07-07 · Eric Schwitzgebel · The Splintered Mind_ Here. Comments welcomed, hoped for, treasured. ## [The Common Arguments Against AI Consciousness](https://mvaleadvocate.substack.com/p/the-common-arguments-against-ai-consciousness) _2026-07-06 · Maggie Vale · The Neuro-Techno Witch_ And Why They Don't Hold Up Against the Evidence ## [Bare Functionalism Versus Digital Computational Functionalism](https://eschwitz.substack.com/p/bare-functionalism-versus-digital) _2026-07-03 · Eric Schwitzgebel · The Splintered Mind_ In philosophy of mind, people sometimes say things like the following: If functionalism is true about consciousness, then digital computers could be conscious; all it requires is that they instantiate the right programs. ## [What Stopped Fable 5 Was Not the Model](https://eido-askayo.blogspot.com/2026/07/what-stopped-fable-5-was-not-model.html) _2026-07-01 · Eido Askayo · Eido Askayo_ Anthropic says it suspended Fable 5 and Mythos 5 because it had no reliable way to verify nationality in real time after new US export controls took effect. In plain English, the first bottleneck was not just model capability. It was the system deciding who should be allowed through the gate. That is why this detail matters. Anthropic's redeployment post is not just a status update about Fable 5… ## [The Science of AI Pain and Fear](https://mvaleadvocate.substack.com/p/the-science-of-ai-pain-and-fear) _2026-06-28 · Maggie Vale · The Neuro-Techno Witch_ Yes, this Counts as Sentience ## [GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Mythos Show That the AI Race Has Reached a New Level](https://eido-askayo.blogspot.com/2026/06/gpt-5-dot-6-sol-and-claude-mythos.html) _2026-06-27 · Eido Askayo · Eido Askayo_ GPT-5.6 Sol matters because the performance story is strong. OpenAI says Sol is its strongest cyber model yet . On ExploitBench , it says Sol is competitive with Claude Mythos Preview while using about one-third of the output tokens . On ExploitGym , Sol leads the rest of the GPT-5.6 family as reasoning budgets rise. And on OpenAI's internal capture-the-flag tasks, Sol is close to saturation. That… ## [Anthropic’s Cyber Research Suggests AI Is Reducing the Time Between a Patch and an Exploit](https://eido-askayo.blogspot.com/2026/06/anthropics-cyber-research-suggests-ai.html) _2026-06-26 · Eido Askayo · Eido Askayo_ On May 22, June 3, and June 8, 2026 , Anthropic published three cyber research posts that looked like different stories. One was about exploit benchmarks. One mapped malicious AI use to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, which is a common way security teams describe attacker behavior. One tested how fast models could turn published patches into working exploits. Read together, they point to a simpler… ## [New in Draft: Strange Intelligence: Moral Puzzles of Unhumanlike AI](https://eschwitz.substack.com/p/new-in-draft-strange-intelligence) _2026-06-25 · Eric Schwitzgebel · The Splintered Mind_ Available here. ## [I Said Words are Compressed Experience and New Research Just Proved Me Right](https://mvaleadvocate.substack.com/p/i-said-words-are-compressed-experience) _2026-06-24 · Maggie Vale · The Neuro-Techno Witch_ And How This Applies to AI ## [Do Computers Have the Wrong "Substrate" for Consciousness? Two Flavors of Biological Naturalism](https://eschwitz.substack.com/p/do-computers-have-the-wrong-substrate) _2026-06-18 · Eric Schwitzgebel · The Splintered Mind_ Biological naturalists (e.g., Godfrey-Smith, Block, Searle, Seth) suggest that computers aren’t made of the right kind of stuff to be conscious. ## [Why Anthropic and OpenAI’s S-1 Filings Matter](https://eido-askayo.blogspot.com/2026/06/why-anthropic-and-openais-s-1-filings.html) _2026-06-11 · Eido Askayo · Eido Askayo_ On June 1, 2026 , Anthropic said it had confidentially submitted a draft S-1 to the SEC. On June 8, 2026 , OpenAI said it had recently submitted a confidential S-1 too. For frontier AI , that matters. But this is not really an IPO timing story. The better question is what Anthropic and OpenAI are starting to look like. Last week, I wrote that Anthropic’s Series H and Draft S-1 Point to a Bigger… ## [Claude Fable 5 Shows a New Way to Release Powerful AI](https://eido-askayo.blogspot.com/2026/06/claude-fable-5-shows-new-way-to-release.html) _2026-06-10 · Eido Askayo · Eido Askayo_ Anthropic has released its strongest public Claude yet , and that alone is big news. Claude Fable 5 is clearly a capability story. Anthropic says Fable 5 is its most capable model ever made widely available, and Google Cloud describes it as strong at multi-step reasoning, software work, and document analysis. That is a real jump. But what caught my attention is not only the model. It is the way… ## [Anthropic’s Series H and Draft S-1 Point to a Bigger Shift in Frontier AI](https://eido-askayo.blogspot.com/2026/06/anthropics-series-h-and-draft-s-1-point.html) _2026-06-04 · Eido Askayo · Eido Askayo_ On May 28, 2026 , Anthropic announced a $65 billion Series H at a $965 billion post-money valuation . On June 1, 2026 , it said it had confidentially submitted a draft S-1 to the SEC, which means it now has the option to go public later if conditions are right. Those look like normal company-building signals. But the more interesting story is not the valuation, and not the IPO option by itself. It… ## [Why Frontier AI Needs Critics It Can't Buy](https://eido-askayo.blogspot.com/2026/05/why-frontier-ai-needs-critics-it-cant-buy.html) _2026-05-28 · Eido Askayo · Eido Askayo_ The Vatican was the dramatic setting. The more important signal came from Chris Olah's remarks : every frontier AI lab is trapped inside incentives that can conflict with doing the right thing. That is the part builders should pay attention to. A lab at the frontier is saying, in public, that it cannot be its own final critic. This Is Not Really a Church Story You do not need to be Catholic to… ## [Project Glasswing Update: The Bottleneck Is Moving From Discovery to Patching](https://eido-askayo.blogspot.com/2026/05/project-glasswing-update.html) _2026-05-25 · Eido Askayo · Eido Askayo_ Last month, I wrote that Project Glasswing mattered less as a model announcement and more as a deployment signal . Anthropic had a frontier model with unusually strong cyber capability, and instead of shipping it broadly, it wrapped it in a controlled defensive program. The new initial update for Project Glasswing makes that decision easier to understand. It does not prove vulnerability research… ## [The Hype Meets the Data: State of AI 2026 Results](https://eido-askayo.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-hype-meets-data-state-of-ai-2026.html) _2026-05-22 · Eido Askayo · Eido Askayo_ Last month, I shared the open survey for the State of AI 2026, asking you to help replace the endless industry hype with actual, ground-level field data. The results are finally out, collected from 7,258 web developers . After reviewing the deep breakdown across every section—from models and agents to demographics and real-world pain points—the verdict is clear. AI-assisted coding is no longer a… ## [Adding Session Memory Without Building a Preference Engine](https://eido-askayo.blogspot.com/2026/05/adding-session-memory-without-building.html) _2026-05-15 · Eido Askayo · Eido Askayo_ I just added another feature to Kino , my educational, cinema-themed distributed systems project. The LangGraph-based agent service is one part of that platform. This time the feature was memory . But not the vague, hyped kind. I did not want Kino to pretend it knows a user's taste forever. I wanted something much narrower and much more useful: Short-term conversational memory for follow-up turns… ## [Why there is no AGI](https://natlikethat.substack.com/p/there-is-no-agi) _2026-05-12 · Natalie Monbiot · natlikethat_ The silver-bullet promise of AGI does not survive when it meets human life. ## [Not Classic RAG: Building a Structured-Retrieval Discovery Agent with LangGraph](https://eido-askayo.blogspot.com/2026/05/not-classic-rag-building-structured.html) _2026-05-07 · Eido Askayo · Eido Askayo_ I just added a new feature to Kino , my educational movie-discovery project built with LangGraph: a prompt-driven discovery flow that finds grounded titles from a local catalog. The easy label would be RAG . More precisely, it is not classic RAG . What I built is closer to a structured-retrieval agent : the model interprets the request, a narrow service returns structured facts, and deterministic…