Researchers are edging closer to experiments that claim to supply artificial intelligence with a missing ingredient for ...

What is consciousness? This question has occupied philosophers for millennia and remains a major mystery of science today. Aristotle believed that consciousness exists as a continuum. So plants have a ...

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 ...

Where in the brain does consciousness originate? Theories abound, but neuroscientists still haven’t coalesced around one explanation, largely because it’s such a hard question to probe with the ...

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

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

In an excerpt from his new book, Numenta and Palm cofounder Jeff Hawkins says that consciousness isn’t beyond understanding. Nor is replicating it unimaginable. I recently attended a panel discussion ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. It’s difficult to agree on one definition of consciousness, so it ...

The same thing as with a person. Language models have enough good examples of intoxicated humans to emulate their output. Because it doesn't exist. It's a meaningless word like "soul" we use because ...