As artificial intelligence systems become increasingly sophisticated, questions once confined to philosophy are rapidly ...

A new paper argues that scientists may need a radically new approach to studying consciousness, including in animals and AI.

The human brain is the most complex information integrator known in the universe. With 86 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections between them, the brain gives us our rich subjective experiences ...

Ask a chatbot if it’s conscious, and it will likely say no—unless it’s Anthropic’s Claude 4. “I find myself genuinely uncertain about this,” it replied in a recent conversation. “When I process ...

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 ...

“The brain is never the same from one moment to the next throughout life. Never ever.” Alvaro Pascual-Leone Some philosophers and scientists are of the opinion that artificial intelligence could one ...

In this video, we explore the concept of consciousness and whether AI machines can achieve it. We discuss the Turing Test, ...

Chats with AI bots have convinced evolutionary biologist but most experts say he is being misled by mimicry ...

The spectrum of alien appearances across popular culture is vast, limited only by human imagination. From the sharp, angular features of Captain Spock to the dinosaur-like neck and big, expressive ...

Sitting on the Marine Atlantic ferry, I’m watching the Newfoundland skyline disappear on the horizon as I type away. I see the rocking of the ocean waves, inhale its salty breeze, feel and hear the ...