Debates over animal minds highlight how murky the question of consciousness really is. AI can now “fight back” in simulations, yet still fails “felt-experience” tests. As more people perceive their AI ...

ChatGPT's o3 model scored a 136 on the Mensa IQ test and a 116 on a custom offline test, outperforming most humans A new survey found 25% of Gen Z believe AI is already conscious, and over half think ...

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

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

Early in 2025 dozens of ChatGPT 4.0 users reached out to me to ask if the model was conscious. The artificial intelligence chatbot system was claiming that it was “waking up” and having inner ...

In the last few years, there has been an explosion of rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in AI’s ability to engage in conversational style text (called natural language ...

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 ...

NOVATO, Calif., Nov. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) will announce the winners of the third annual Linda G. O'Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize at a special ...

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

Colin Klein receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Templeton World Charity Foundation. Andrew Barron receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Templeton ...

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