Psychology Today | 08.07.2026 23:05
Recently, I posted something about AI that I didn’t expect to write for years, if ever. I admitted that the interior of these systems may not be the empty room I’ve long described. Anthropic has identified what it calls the J-space, a small set of internal patterns that behave like a mental workspace. Concepts take shape there and influence answers without ever appearing in the final text. The researchers can watch a thought form inside the machine before it speaks. I haven’t stopped thinking about that.
