Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our inner lives are increasingly shaped by forces designed to capture and monetize attention, Michael Pollan says.Composite: The ...

New research offers a way to identify consciousness in living and artificial systems.

Consciousness has long resisted neat explanations, but a growing body of research suggests the problem may lie in how we picture the brain’s information processing. Instead of behaving like a tidy ...

Ask a chatbot if it’s conscious, and it will likely say no—unless it’s Anthropic’s Claude 4. “I find myself genuinely uncertain about this,” it replied in a recent conversation. “When I process ...

In a controversial 2025 paper, a researcher proposed a theory that consciousness may give rise to matter—not the other way ...

At 78 years old, Deepak Chopra wakes up each morning with a question for his AI. Today’s query explored how every ingredient we use to experience the physical world has no actual existence in that ...

Pollan, a science writer, spent five years trying to understand how consciousness worked. The more he learned, the weirder things got. This is an edited transcript of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can ...

A psychedelic experience set author Michael Pollan on a quest to understand consciousness in his new book A World Appears. He ...

Let’s swing for the fences with this one, shall we? Some questions are timeless because they’re so fundamental that everyone ponders them at some point in life (often—for me at least—in the shower).