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Global Workspace explains access, not qualia asks how a measured feature of nature should be read once competing explanations are allowed into the room. The row is trying to focus attention on one claim: Global Workspace-style models explain access, report, and broadcast functions, but they do not by themselves settle phenomenal consciousness or qualia. Read it as disciplined contact with nature: the measurement matters, and so do the limits of what the measurement can say. In the scoring table, its main conversation partners are Idealism (H-IDEALISM), Reductive Physicalism (H-PHYSICALISM-REDUCTIVE), Naturalism (H-NATURALISM); that is a map of relevance, not a declaration that the item settles those hypotheses by itself.
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The basic idea is simple: Global Workspace-style models explain access, report, and broadcast functions, but they do not by themselves settle phenomenal consciousness or qualia. That is the thing to notice before the technical labels and numbers arrive.
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Science rows are not shortcuts from a lab result to a worldview. They ask a narrower and more interesting question: what kind of reality makes this pattern, mechanism, or constraint feel expected rather than strange? The answer may help the map, but it should not pretend to be more precise than the evidence allows.
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For mind and consciousness, the key distinction is between explaining what minds do and explaining what experience is like from the inside.
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In the scoring table, this item mainly talks to Idealism (H-IDEALISM), Reductive Physicalism (H-PHYSICALISM-REDUCTIVE), Naturalism (H-NATURALISM), and nearby alternatives. That does not mean the item proves those views true or false; it means the clue leans, however slightly or strongly, in those directions within the model.
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Global Workspace-style models explain access, report, and broadcast functions, but they do not by themselves settle phenomenal consciousness or qualia. This gives only modest, cluster-capped pressure against reductive physicalism and slight support to mind-first or emergent accounts.
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Read this as science or mind evidence with scope-limited worldview relevance. Its category path is Science / Consciousness & Mind / Cognitive Neuroscience, which helps set expectations for what kind of question this row can answer.
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This matters because explanations have habits. Some worlds make this clue feel ordinary; others have to work harder to account for it. The Signal tracks that difference without pretending that one row can settle the whole journey.
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The current numerical weight is intentionally bounded: H-IDEALISM: +0.04 log10BF; H-PHYSICALISM-REDUCTIVE: -0.03 log10BF; H-NATURALISM: -0.01 log10BF; H-GOD: +0.01 log10BF; H-EMERGENTISM: +0.01 log10BF. In ordinary language, this row changes the angle of the map; it does not carry the whole argument on its back.
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Use the citation list attached to this evidence item for source audit. No additional publication details are implied beyond those existing citations.
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