A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the brain functions.

More and more experts seem open to the possibility of AI systems being conscious. David Chalmers, the renowned philosopher ...

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

Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

A University of Cambridge philosopher argues that our evidence for what constitutes consciousness is far too limited to tell if or when artificial intelligence has made the leap—and a valid test for ...

Dr. Karl Friston is a distinguished computational psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and pioneer of modern neuroimaging and, now, AI. He is a leading expert on intelligence, natural as well as artificial.

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Consciousness has long resisted neat explanations, but a growing body of research suggests the problem may lie in how we ...

The rapid development of AI has caused everyone to chime in on their views on consciousness, and most physicists fall firmly in ...

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, ...

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The only reasonable stance on conscious AI is “agnosticism”: that we won’t, and may never, be able to tell, says a philosophy-of-consciousness expert. This gulf in our knowledge could be exploited by ...