In Newen and Montemayor’s evolutionary framework, basic arousal developed first. It’s like nature’s security alarm, warning ...

For more than a century, neuroscience has treated consciousness as something the brain manufactures, like a factory turning ...

Study Shows Your Eyes See, But Your Brain Doesn’t Process During Mental Absences In A Nutshell Consciousness may actually pause while you’re awake. The brain patterns during mind blanking resemble ...

In rethinking whether AI is sentient, we are asking bigger questions about cognition, human-machine interaction and even our own consciousness ...

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...

Consciousness researchers studying “islands of awareness” have found that disconnected brains likely sink into a strange form ...

Researchers across biology, philosophy, and AI are split on what counts as a mind—and whether today’s systems qualify.

For centuries, philosophers have grappled with the mystery of consciousness: the unique inner world that seems fundamental to human existence. Despite the long-standing challenge of finding a ...

What do you get when you mix fire's power, electricity's reach, math's precision, and language's connection? AI—humanity's ...

Do trees have minds? A friend posed this question during one of the high school afternoons we habitually spent—no doubt with too much time on our hands—engaging in amateur philosophical banter. It ...

Most people wouldn’t bat an eyelid if notable psychologists (e.g., Kahneman, author of Thinking Fast and Slow) or economists (e.g., Thaler and Sunstein, authors of Nudge: Improving Decisions about ...