Does Claude Have a “Subconscious”? Anthropic Found a Limited Window Into Its Silent Reasoning.

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…