The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

"The Romance of Reality" explains how life and consciousness can proliferate despite the seeming contradiction between ...

Across physics, biology and philosophy, a once-fringe idea is gaining new intellectual weight: the possibility that the ...

Dr. Neil Theise, physician, scientist, philosopher and author of Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being, invites us to trade our limited, individualistic view ...

The origin of consciousness has teased the minds of philosophers and scientists for centuries. In the last decade, neuroscientists have begun to piece together its neural underpinnings—that is, how ...

For most of human history, consciousness has been something that scientists have talked around. It hasn’t really been something they could test. That is, until now. Researchers have begun to treat ...

One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. In the 1990s, long before winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his prediction of black holes, ...

Lab-grown brain tissue is too simple to experience consciousness, but as innovation progresses, neuroscientists question whether it's time to revisit the ethics of this line of research. When you ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

As a journalist who covers AI, I hear from countless people who seem utterly convinced that ChatGPT, Claude, or some other chatbot has achieved “sentience.” Or “consciousness.” Or—my personal favorite ...