Is AI conscious? Anthropic's conflcited in-house philosopher is surprisingly open to the idea that they can already feel.

Last week, Anthropic released what it calls Claude’s Constitution, a 30,000-word document outlining the company’s vision for ...

In rethinking whether AI is sentient, we are asking bigger questions about cognition, human-machine interaction and even our own consciousness ...

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

The economy is sending mixed signals, but is the stock market in a bubble? Paul Gigot and columnist Andy Kessler discuss the valuations of variousAI companies, and look at the list of possible ...

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

The biological cycle of our existence seems relatively straightforward: we’re born, we live, we die. The end. But when you examine existence at the cellular level, things get a bit more interesting.

Two concepts haunt modern science like unsolved riddles. Information—the currency of the digital age, the stuff of genes and neurons, perhaps the fabric of reality itself. And consciousness—the inner ...

What if your conscious experiences were not just the chatter of neurons, but were connected to the hum of the universe? In a paper published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, I present new evidence ...

"Consciousness," although challenging to define, can be thought of as a first-person awareness of one's surroundings and oneself. You sense the world through your eyes, nose, ears and hands, and track ...

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Consciousness is fundamental; only thereafter do time, space and matter arise. This is the starting point for a new theoretical model of the nature of reality, presented by Maria Strømme, Professor of ...