In Hindu mythology, lineage is never incidental. Gods create, inherit, and pass on their essence just as humans do, sometimes ...

There are mornings when the world hums as if alive, but inside you, a hollow drum beats a rhythm that no one else can hear.

What if we simply cannot know whether an artificial intelligence is conscious, and what if that uncertainty itself is the real danger?​ ...

A pair of recent studies examined why sophisticated levels of consciousness evolved in some animals, but not in others. In the first study, philosophers outlined the ALARM theory that shows how three ...

Consciousness is fundamental; only thereafter do time, space and matter arise. This is the starting point for a new theoretical model of the nature of reality, presented by Maria Strømme, Professor of ...

What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum published two articles on this topic. Although ...

Re “What Is It Like to Be a Computer?,” by Barbara Gail Montero (Opinion guest essay, Nov. 10): Dr. Montero’s essay argues that artificial intelligence may one day become conscious. But I wonder if ...

Just as Gödel’s incompleteness theorems show that no number system can fully describe itself, it seems clear from Kuhn’s excellent survey of the field that whatever consciousness is, ours cannot fully ...

Many of us have downloaded mindfulness apps like Headspace or Calm, and have probably benefited from spending 10 minutes each day focusing on our breathing. But reducing stress and softening the ...

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 ...

A review of over 100 years of neuroscience research asks if some brain regions are more important than others for consciousness. What gives rise to human consciousness? Are some parts of the brain ...