Debates over animal minds highlight how murky the question of consciousness really is. AI can now “fight back” in simulations, yet still fails “felt-experience” tests. As more people perceive their AI ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

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Consciousness has long been treated as philosophy’s most stubborn mystery, yet a growing body of neuroscience is now tying our inner life to specific, testable brain mechanisms. A leading MIT ...

Large language models like ChatGPT are designed to be eerily human-like. The more you engage with these AIs, the easier it is to convince yourself that they’re conscious, just like you. But are you ...

As a journalist who covers AI, I hear from countless people who seem utterly convinced that ChatGPT, Claude, or some other chatbot has achieved “sentience.” Or “consciousness.” Or—my personal favorite ...

Yes: Consciousness is totally dependent on the brain and comes out from it. Dynamics of the brain create awareness. The brain is the conscious mind. No: Mind and body are distinctly different; ...

Consciousness is the ultimate question of existence. Nothing is more essential than our experience. Yet we have no consensus, and perhaps no clue, about what it actually is. The trouble, in part, is ...

When I began my master’s program in cognitive science, an electrical engineering professor told us—rather arrogantly—that the soul is nothing but neurons firing. “You’re deluded if you think otherwise ...

If you don’t know anything about neuroscience, that’s okay — one researcher’s striking theory might send us all back to the start anyway. Consciousness is typically defined as immediate awareness of ...

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