Walk into consciousness labs, and you will mostly find studies on humans relying on verbal reports. This evidence is then ...

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

The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that ...

The original version ofthis storyappeared in Quanta Magazine. Science routinely puts forward theories, then batters them with data till only one is left standing. In the fledgling science of ...

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 original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Science routinely puts forward theories, then batters them with data till only one is left standing. In the fledgling science of ...

For most of human history, consciousness has been something that scientists have talked around. It hasn’t really been ...

The only reason humans know about the existence of consciousness — the phenomenon of having subjective feelings and experiences — is because we have feelings and experiences. But despite centuries of ...

There is evidence that some form of conscious experience is present by birth, and perhaps even in late pregnancy, an international team of researchers has found. There is evidence that some form of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The evolution of life on Earth 'almost predictably' led to human intelligence, neuroscientist ...

Dr. Tom McClelland argues that there is no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious, and that this uncertainty may never ...