Take a moment and consider how you define mind relative to consciousness. In reflecting on questions such as: Can something have a mind, but not be conscious? Can something be conscious, but not have ...

Why did the experience of consciousness evolve from our underlying brain physiology? Despite being a vibrant area of neuroscience, current research on consciousness is characterised by disagreement ...

Science, with extraordinary achievements in the arena of knowledge and development, is still struggling to define consciousness. Modern scientific theories try to link consciousness to the brain's ...

Christof Koch is taking on one of science’s deepest mysteries: how the brain creates conscious experience, or whether it creates it at all. He argues that materialism has yet to solve this “hard ...

The question of whether artificial intelligence will ever achieve true consciousness remains one of the most captivating debates in science and technology. As AI systems become increasingly ...

Advances in artificial intelligence are making it increasingly difficult to distinguish between uniquely human behaviors and those that can be replicated by machines. Should artificial general ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Human consciousness took billions of years to evolve, but in the next 10 to 15 years, it may have company in the form of synthetic intelligence. A ...

Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, says Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and compu ...