After she dropped to her knees outside her home in Midlothian, Virginia, suffocating, after she was lifted into the ambulance ...

If the stakes of our actions are low, we can rely upon ourselves and no one else to decide, but when the consequences are significant, such as potentially harming others, then checking our moral ...

Consciousness remains science’s greatest mystery. A new study explores how it arises—and why solving it could reshape ...

Consciousness studies is too much like the blind men with the elephant. Here's an explanation for the blind spot and how we can work around it.

Last week, Anthropic released what it calls Claude’s Constitution, a 30,000-word document outlining the company’s vision for ...

Why did the experience of consciousness evolve from our underlying brain physiology? Despite being a vibrant area of neuroscience, current research on consciousness is characterised by disagreement ...

'This blessing experience was decisive in convincing me that consciousness lives on beyond the grave' As a medical student, I learned that it was obvious that consciousness was a product of a ...

A philosopher at the University of Cambridge says there’s no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious—and that may remain true for the foreseeable future. According to Dr. Tom McClelland, ...

For decades, scientists assumed that consciousness—the subjective feeling of being aware—was the crowning achievement of the human brain. Other animals, such as birds, lacking a cerebral cortex, were ...

The drive to find one unifying theory, one overarching universal principle that would subsume and explain all, has been a common theme of human striving for knowledge for many centuries. It reflects, ...

As machines grow more capable of mimicking thought, scientists are racing to decode the mystery that still separates us from them: consciousness. Credit: Shutterstock As AI rapidly advances and ...