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

What does it mean for God not only to take on flesh but to take on a very specific and highly individualized human ...

This interaction could help explain both why quantum processes can occur within environments like the brain and why we lose ...

Academic leaders from around the world penned an open letter calling on artificial intelligence developers to learn more about consciousness as artificial intelligence (AI) systems advance rapidly, ...

Consciousness has long resisted neat explanations, but a growing body of research suggests the problem may lie in how we ...

From Dec. 2 to 3, the 2025 GIS Global Innovation Expo and Global Innovation Summit took place at Asia World-Expo in Hong Kong. Geoffrey Hinton, widely referred to as the “AI godfather” and a Turing ...

I recently attended a panel discussion titled Being Human in the Age of Intelligent Machines. At one point during the evening, a philosophy professor from Yale said that if a machine ever became ...

Walk into consciousness labs, and you will mostly find studies on humans relying on verbal reports. This evidence is then ...

Throughout history, attempts by mere mortals to plumb the inner recesses of the soul have been seen as hubristic. Shakespeare had Hamlet express this powerfully when he rages against those who “would ...

Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption. Although scientists have developed biological-based explanations for ...

There is a new review of books in Nature, Consciousness: what it is, where it comes from — and whether machines can have it, where the author wrote, “I consider the indicators as signifying the ...

There’s an almost fretful anxiety in the voices and writings of materialists when they discuss consciousness. Inevitably, they become frustrated and angered when theists point out science’s inability ...