Can artificial intelligence become conscious? A Cambridge philosopher warns we may never know, urging caution as AI advances ...

It gives you sources and suggests follow‑up questions… It raises consciousness and prompts you about what you can do.” ...

New work explores why consciousness evolved and what observing birds can teach us about its biological purpose.

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and ...

A conversation about consciousness, emotion, and the new relationship between humans and machines. Generative AI language models are changing our world at a rapid pace – and with it our view of ...

After analyzing many previous studies on lucid dreaming, researchers have defined it as a state that differs significantly ...

Researchers are trying to determine if patients who do not appear to be aware of their surroundings are actually 'covertly' conscious.

Brain organoids can be a good step forward, assuming they are grown from induced human pluripotent stem cells. That allows us to sidestep ethical concerns about the use of human embryos, thereby ...

When David Luke committed to studying psychedelics and parapsychology, it felt like double career suicide. Today, elite ...

What if your conscious experiences were not just the chatter of neurons, but were connected to the hum of the universe? In a ...

We conclude that brain states are shaped by local circuit mechanisms, large-scale connectivity and neuromodulation. A unified multiscale theory of cortical dynamics is relevant not only for ...

New ideas can shift everything you thought you understood, and these science books offer that rare spark that leaves your ...