"We don't really know what gives rise to consciousness." The post Top Anthropic Researcher No Longer Sure Whether AI Is ...

It’s currently tricky to tell if other human beings are truly conscious, and once AI systems begin acting sufficiently like ...

As more people use AI assistants and chatbots for everyday tasks, a curious phenomenon is emerging: a growing number of users ...

Because of their high levels of curiosity and instinct, there are certain things conscious thinkers and observers usually say ...

Consciousness is arguably the most important scientific topic there is. Without consciousness, there would after all be no science. But while we all know what it is like to be conscious—meaning that ...

Consciousness is arguably the most important scientific topic there is. Without consciousness, there would, after all, be no science. But while we all know what it is like to be conscious — meaning ...

Perhaps no other word has more confusion surrounding it than consciousness. The word is so fraught that many books on the topic will avoid specifying what it means. For example, Michael Gazzaniga’s ...

My name is Forrest. And I have lived in Western North Carolina for a decade now. My personal journey on the path of conscious living began in 2013 on an inspiring trip to Maui, Hawaii. On that ...

Babies blink, cry, and yawn—and a few weeks into their lives, they might smile. But do these movements mean that newborns have conscious experiences of perceiving the world around them? Or are these ...

A single psychedelic experience increased a range of non-physicalist beliefs, such as consciousness, meaning and purpose, researchers reported in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. “Guardrails against ...