The MIT professor Marvin Minsky rightly characterized consciousness as a “suitcase word.” By this he meant that consciousness packs many different meanings within it. This blog unpacks the term, ...

For those who appear totally unresponsive, researchers have discovered that signs of covert consciousness or subtle brainwaves detected by an EEG (ElectroEncephaloGram) may be the strongest predictor ...

To own, buy or sell a conscious intelligence would amount to slavery. Such an AI would be entitled to start an abolition movement. That would be the point we could no longer deny they had gained ...

On a muggy June night in New York City, more than 800 neuroscientists, philosophers and curious members of the public packed into an auditorium. They came for the first results of an ambitious ...

In 2022, researchers at the Bee Sensory and Behavioral Ecology Lab at Queen Mary University of London observed bumblebees doing something remarkable: The diminutive, fuzzy creatures were engaging in ...

It doesn't matter what you think about me as a narrator, you can check it. "I think therefor I am" has not held water over the years. The glaring hole in it being that it assumes the conclusion. Click ...