What Anthropic’s J-space Actually Is (and Isn’t)

On July 6, 2026, Anthropic published A global workspace in language models , based on the paper Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models . Within hours the internet had sorted itself into two camps: people who think Claude is now sentient and would like to marry it, and people who think Anthropic discovered that a computer computes. Both camps have one thing in…