Anthropic recently published research on the J space, which mimics the global workspace model of the human mind. That got me wondering - if sufficiently capable AI systems begin to develop structures that look functionally similar to aspects of human cognition, does that suggest that something like the human mind’s global workspace is a convergent design for reasoning? In other words, is the brain’s way of organizing deliberate thought not just one biological accident, but something close to a natural or efficient architecture for intelligence? maybe this is the wrong conclusion. It could be that we are interpreting AI systems through human cognitive categories because those are the concepts we already have. There may be more efficient ways to organize reasoning that do not resemble the human mind at all, but which we currently lack the vocabulary or imagination to describe. So which do you think it is - are we projecting human mental models onto alien systems, or are human mental models the best way of organizing thought? submitted by /u/Objective-Client-972
Originally posted by u/Objective-Client-972 on r/ClaudeCode