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

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

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

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...

Consciousness evolved in stages, starting with basic survival responses like pain and alarm, then expanding into focused awareness and self-reflection. These layers help organisms avoid danger, learn ...

For centuries, the concept of consciousness has intrigued philosophers and scientists alike. Often deemed too abstract for scientific exploration, consciousness has been largely left to philosophical ...

“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 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 ...

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 ...