Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum on Thursday about his vision for a world where there are more robots than ...

Researchers across biology, philosophy, and AI are split on what counts as a mind—and whether today’s systems qualify.

Neuroscientists and philosophers have debated this thought experiment for decades as they have tried to understand how the ...

Consciousness researchers studying “islands of awareness” have found that disconnected brains likely sink into a strange form ...

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

In that regard, he displays no awareness of the autonomous character of fascist movements—that those movements too can arise in response to immiseration and they too can be prepared to challenge the ...

In Newen and Montemayor’s evolutionary framework, basic arousal developed first. It’s like nature’s security alarm, warning ...

In what appears to be a rolling back on free speech and citizen journalism, Britain is fast-tracking a law that will ban ...

What do you get when you mix fire's power, electricity's reach, math's precision, and language's connection? AI—humanity's ...

The hive mind doesn’t quite fit in the same category of horror as slashers or monsters, but it is its own impressive breed of terror. It’s been a feature of science fiction and horror for decades, ...

For decades, scientists assumed that consciousness—the subjective feeling of being aware—was the crowning achievement of the human brain. Other animals, such as birds, lacking a cerebral cortex, were ...

As machines grow more capable of mimicking thought, scientists are racing to decode the mystery that still separates us from them: consciousness. Credit: Shutterstock As AI rapidly advances and ...