Consciousness should not be deemed as an ‘all-or-nothing’ cognitive function but rather as a graded and multi-dimensional ...

Researchers are trying to build tiny synthetic emotions into AI that they hope will be the scaffolding of machine ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

Researchers are edging closer to experiments that claim to supply artificial intelligence with a missing ingredient for ...

For decades, debates about consciousness have been driven by elegant theories and small, carefully controlled experiments.

Dr Sumedha Kotwal When we look deeply into matter, the solidity of the world begins to dissolve. What appears hard, tangible, ...

Summary: Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum explore why consciousness evolved and why different species developed it in distinct ways. By comparing humans with birds, they show that complex ...

Academic leaders from around the world penned an open letter calling on artificial intelligence developers to learn more about consciousness as artificial intelligence (AI) systems advance rapidly, ...

Explaining how something as complex as consciousness can emerge from a grey, jelly-like lump of tissue in the head is arguably the greatest scientific challenge of our time. The brain is an ...

Consciousness is fundamental; only thereafter do time, space and matter arise. This is the starting point for a new theoretical model of the nature of reality, presented by Maria Strømme, Professor of ...

And perhaps, in this rapidly evolving landscape, the question of consciousness in AI systems has found its way to become a legitimate field of scholarly inquiry. A recent commentary in Nature, backed ...

In 2007 I published a book called Animals Matter and at about the same time Erin Williams and Margo Demello published a book called Why Animals Matter. And just this month another book called Why ...