As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent ...

An EU team of neuroscientists asked their peers: “Can’t we all just get along?” They analyzed how five major theories of ...

Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex—the brain’s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate ...

This balance—neurons as the silent bee workers, waves as the queen’s rhythm holding the hive together—suggests consciousness ...

What if bacteria are conscious? New research suggests all life experiences awareness through unique lenses—and humans can ...

This is an example of a higher state of consciousness – or, in my preferred term, an awakening experience. Awakening ...

But I don’t ever observe your experience,” says Robert Chis-Ciure, a postdoctoral researcher studying consciousness at the University of Sussex in England. Scientists have landed on two leading ...

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A.I. startup Anthropic is best known for its Claude chatbot. Courtesy Anthropic Last year, Anthropic hired its first-ever A.I. welfare researcher, Kyle Fish, to examine whether A.I. models are ...

The outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, one of the most consequential in recent history, was determined in no small part by concerns about the cognitive state of President Biden and the ...