The rapid development of AI has caused everyone to chime in on their views on consciousness, and most physicists fall firmly in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. Last year, scientists inferentially detected the existence of ...

Consciousness is the ultimate question of existence. Nothing is more essential than our experience. Yet we have no consensus, and perhaps no clue, about what it actually is. The trouble, in part, is ...

The two major philosophical positions on the hard problem of consciousness are materialism and dualism. Dualists view mental and physical realms as distinct aspects of reality, while materialists ...

Large language models (LLMs) deliver impressive results, but are they truly capable of reaching or surpassing human ...

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This study is led by Prof. Jiang Zhang (School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University and Swarma Research). He has been pursuing the essence behind the emergent phenomena in complex systems.