This interaction could help explain both why quantum processes can occur within environments like the brain and why we lose consciousness under anesthesia.

Of the 800m people using ChatGPT every week, only a vanishingly small number will have seriously considered whether ChatGPT might have experiences worth caring about. AI welfare — the project of ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational functionalism, which treats cognition as something you can fully explain ...

Some recent studies proposed that consciousness emerges early in development, possibly during the third trimester of ...

In conventional computing, we can draw a clean line between software and hardware. In brains, there is no such separation of different scales. In the brain, everything influences everything else, from ...

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

In this season of reflection, it's awe-inspiring to consider how so much is still beyond our scientific understanding — from the big questions of the origins of the universe and life, to the more ...

A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.

A physicist has proposed a radical new theory of consciousness – and it could finally explain what happens when you die. Consciousness does not emerge from human brains, according to Professor Maria ...

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We are today living in an era of historically ferocious political regression, a massive conservative backlash whose ...

Fanning attended the May 2019 film festival as a main juror. The health scare occurred at the Chopard Trophee dinner just as ...