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Global Workspace Theory and AI: Does Broadcasting Make a Mind?

Global Workspace Theory offers one of the most testable accounts of consciousness, but what happens when we apply it to large language models and transformer architectures?

N. Varela

· May 7, 2026 · 4 min read

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