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The researchers found 68 articles that analyzed theoretical aspects of consciousness and that were published between 2007 and ...

Your brain might have a hidden neural layer that puts you in touch with the same “figures” during altered states of ...

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A philosopher at the University of Cambridge says there’s no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious—and that may remain true for the foreseeable future. According to Dr. Tom McClelland, ...

The original version ofthis storyappeared in Quanta Magazine. Science routinely puts forward theories, then batters them with data till only one is left standing. In the fledgling science of ...

Why does consciousness exist? The answer lies in the evolutionary origins of the simplest forms of subjective experience, not in studies of human consciousness alone, which represent just one special ...