Take a moment and consider how you define mind relative to consciousness. In reflecting on questions such as: Can something have a mind, but not be conscious? Can something be conscious, but not have ...

Life-forms made of stuff we couldn’t imagine may still be as conscious as we are.

Artificial intelligence can process information with remarkable sophistication, but can it ever possess consciousness?

Human consciousness is one of the strangest and most stubbornly elusive phenomena in nature. Now, researchers have proposed a radical theory.

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

Rumors of artificial intelligence becoming sentient abound. In July of 2022, a Google engineer claimed that an AI chatbot he was working with had become self-aware. The same AI recently passed the ...

Psychology, psychoanalysis, Buddhism, and other speculative paradigms such as shamanism, panpsychism, and collective ...

For decades, artificial intelligence has existed only in our fiction. We’ve imagined intelligent computer programs and malicious machines in everything from Terminator and The Matrix to I, Robot, and ...

The ‘doorway effect’ suggests that when information is removed from working memory, it immediately seems to leave ...