One scientist’s unorthodox method could finally explain where your “soul” goes when you die, precognition, and everything in ...

My fascination with AI led to my recent book, Digital Dharma, and the root of my fascination has to do with the possibility that AI can raise a person’s level of awareness. Artificial intelligence ...

A new research paper argues that emerging brain–computer interface (BCI) technologies are not just medical tools but ...

Simulate a brain at whatever resolution you want. It won't be conscious. It will be a very good simulation of one.

When René Descartes watched a mechanical figure move with lifelike precision in the 17th century, the scene unsettled him. The machine behaved like a person, yet no one believed it could feel. That ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maya Ackerman. (Courtesy of Maya Ackerman) In 2022, a Google engineer claimed one of the company’s AIs was sentient. He lost his ...

Decades of movies that explore the potential of machine consciousness—Blade Runner; Ex Machina; I, Robot; and many others—have tended to treat the arrival of said consciousness as a matter of course.

The debate over AI consciousness is back. Mustafa Suleyman, a leading AI executive, recently said that “seemingly conscious AI” is on the horizon. These are systems that, through ongoing enhancements ...

Artificial intelligence now writes code, drafts legal memos, and chats in fluent paragraphs, yet the most unsettling question about these systems sits just out of reach: do any of them actually feel ...

The future, particularly cognition about the future, has been very much a back-burner issue in psychology for more than a century. The canonical human being, Homo psychologicus, is a prisoner of the ...

Understanding the brain as a prediction machine may help explain consciousness. The brain evolved as an adaptation enabling organisms to better perceive and control the environment and their own ...