As claims about conscious AI grow louder, a Cambridge philosopher argues that we lack the evidence to know whether machines ...

Consciousness evolved in stages, starting with basic survival responses like pain and alarm, then expanding into focused awareness and self-reflection. These layers help organisms avoid danger, learn ...

Research reveals why AI systems can't become conscious—and what radically different computing substrates would be needed to ...

BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.

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

A new study led by Dr. Jiang Yi from the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the first ...

Brain organoids can be a good step forward, assuming they are grown from induced human pluripotent stem cells. That allows us to sidestep ethical concerns about the use of human embryos, thereby ...

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

After analyzing many previous studies on lucid dreaming, researchers have defined it as a state that differs significantly from both REM sleep and wakefulness.

Artificial intelligence now writes code, drafts legal memos, and chats in fluent paragraphs, yet the most unsettling question ...