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framework:global-workspace-theoryGlobal workspace theory
Theory of consciousness involving a global workspace for information.
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Papers (2)
paper
- Taking AI Welfare Seriouslymentions
Thinkers (2)
thinker
- Bernard BaarsintroducesstudiesOriginator of Global Workspace Theory.
- Stanislas DehaenestudiesCited for global workspace theory and consciousness models.
Concepts (9)
concept
- Coherence MaximizationextendsThe functional role consciousness plays: minimizing constraint violations between simultaneously active partial models of reality
- Global Workspace (computational feature)implementsArchitectural feature integrating information from modules and broadcasting it, associated with consciousness per GWT.
- GWT-2: Limited capacity workspace, entailing a bottleneck and a selective attention mechanismassociated_withIndicator: workspace bottleneck with selective attention.
- Global BroadcastingimplementsThe mechanism by which information becomes consciously accessible according to Global Workspace Theory
- Indicator from GWT: existence of specialized parallel modules.
- Indicator: global broadcast to all modules.
- GWT-4: State-dependent attention enabling sequential querying of modules for complex tasksassociated_withIndicator: state-dependent attention and sequential module recruitment for System 2 thought.
- Recurrent IntegrationimplementsComputational property emphasized across consciousness theories as necessary for conscious processing
- Functional properties (recurrent processing, global broadcasting, higher-order metacognition) derived from consciousness theories and reformulable as testable criteria in AI systems
Claims (2)
claim
- Tentative conclusion on the autonomy-consciousness link.
- Point of genuine disagreement with IIT and GWT
Artifacts (3)
artifact
- Main paper presenting UCCT and semantic anchoring framework.
- The working paper itself, presenting a pluralist theory of moral standing and arguing that autonomy can ground moral standing without welfare subjectivity.
- Key paper finding structured first-person descriptions in LLMs claiming awareness or subjective experience during self-referential processing.
Frameworks (2)
framework
- Computational Functionalismassociated_withHypothesis that some class of computations suffices for consciousness; central assumption for AI consciousness route.
- Learning-Feeling IdentityextendsThe paper's own framework identifying signed evaluative computation with phenomenal valence in learning systems
Hypotheses (1)
hypothesis
- The theoretical hypothesis tested across all four experiments; motivated by convergence of GWT, RPT, HOT, IIT, predictive processing on recurrent/self-referential dynamics
Related by similarity (8)
cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- The large-scale organizational pattern of a system whose preservation defines wholeness-preserving transformations
- The exterior domain outside the text block, the surrounding world.
- Limited capacity of the workspace relative to the sum of module capacities.
- Adam Safron's theory positing Self-Organized Harmonic Modes as neural building blocks.
- Foundational framework consisting of systems (wires), processes (boxes), and composition (wirings); basis for quantum and compositional reasoning.
- Psychological theory of insight; complemented by the normative active inference account
- Fundamental mathematical tool; poset-as-category provides simple instances of categorical notions like products and adjunctions.