Seeing feels immediate; we open our eyes and the world seems to appear as a continuous stream. But some visual illusions show ...

Have you ever heard the phrase "you only use 10% of your brain"? In reality, there is no way to measure consciousness in ...

The reason we entertain thought experiments such as reincarnation and an afterlife is because we're sentient beings. These ...

In June 2022, a Google engineer named Blake Lemoine became convinced that the AI program he’d been working on—LaMDA—had developed not only intelligence but also consciousness. LaMDA is an example of a ...

Metaphors invite ways of thinking. If philosophical disagreements are battles, only one side can win. If memory is a storehouse, recollection requires search and retrieval (but maybe not if memory is ...

Even a couple of years ago, the idea that artificial intelligence might be conscious and capable of subjective experience seemed like pure science fiction. But in recent months, we’ve witnessed a ...

Conscious aging is an appealing term, but what does it mean? Well, that’s easy. The answer is as simple as doing a push-up and challenging as doing meditation about death. Overall, however, the phrase ...

Any conception of consciousness we propose will be limited by the fact that consciousness is something we can know only from ...

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 ...

Experts believe it’s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implications ...

Whether AI is conscious sounds like a yes-or-no question. It also sounds like a test of whether we owe AI anything. Both assumptions may be wrong.

Conscious businesses — or as I say, "businesses with soul" — are gaining steam among company leaders and employees who wish to make a difference in the world. They want to connect with their sense of ...