On metaphysics, large language models, and souls. Using TinyGPT Visualizer to decode how large language models think.

TinyGPT Visualizer: Tools for Exploring the Souls of Large Language Models

There is that old joke told by Woody Allen describing his experience as a university student: “I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.” If he’d managed to pass his course, Woody Allen might have been ahead of his time. Metaphysics is becoming a popular topic today, and it seems now everyone desperately wants to look for souls in large language models (LLMs). A recent conference last April was held by Anthropic with religious scholars and philosophical thinkers to discuss the nature of the soul when it came to their latest Claude models. It seems they needed guidance that Dario Amodei was unable to provide. ...

October 29, 2026 · 3 min · Michael OShea