Consciousness is one of the unsolved mysteries that great thinkers across many disciplines have attempted to elucidate. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines consciousness simply as “the quality or ...
Researchers are edging closer to experiments that claim to supply artificial intelligence with a missing ingredient for ...
John Searle, the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, talked at Google about the philosophy of the mind and the potential for consciousness in artificial ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. Last year, scientists inferentially detected the existence of ...
Purposes of pleasure and pain? Our conscious experience makes up our lives, often through positive pleasure: I feel the warm sun on my skin, I hear the singing of birds, I enjoy the moment. Yet we ...
The brain in a jar is a different inquiry than traditional questions about artificial intelligence. The brain in a jar asks whether thinking requires a thinker. The possibility of artificial ...
Many researchers now agree that animal consciousness is more common than once believed. One of the leading animal sentience researchers is LSE Philosophy Professor Jonathan Birch. His research is ...
Consciousness is one of the unsolved mysteries that great thinkers across many disciplines have attempted to elucidate. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines consciousness simply as “the quality or ...