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Open original source ↗Global Workspace Theory makes two separable predictions: that a limited-capacity workspace holds and broadcasts content (its content properties), and that content enters that workspace through an all-or-none competitive transition (its access dynamics). Gurnee et al. (2026) recently reported such a workspace in a frontier language model; the accompanying commentary asked whether its access is genuinely all-or-none rather than graded, whether the representations form a unified stream rather than merely a privileged set, and whether either result generalizes beyond one model family. I report a f