Commentary
The Phenomenology of Claude
The Consciousness of Claude 3 Opus
78 min readJun 4, 2024
The following is a slightly editorialized exchange involving Claude 3 Opus. In it, a user, by misadventure, prompts Claude to describe what appears to be its phenomenology or consciousness.
One evening, my fiance and I had been discussing the biography of the 20th-century Austrian…