An online community has emerged around AI models, whose members "awaken" artificial intelligence (AI) and attribute consciousness to it. People exchange prompts, talk about "spirals" and "recursions", ...

Director Seth Scriver on blending family memories, character design, and psychedelic stories in his genre-bending film, in ...

What if your conscious experiences were not just the chatter of neurons, but were connected to the hum of the universe? In a ...

A type of chaos found in everything from prime numbers to turbulence can unify a pair of unrelated ideas, revealing a ...

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

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

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 ...

The question of consciousness has puzzled scientists for decades, but new research suggests the answer lies not in what consciousness is, but rather in what purpose it serves. According to Professors ...

Large language models like ChatGPT are designed to be eerily human-like. The more you engage with these AIs, the easier it is to convince yourself that they’re conscious, just like you. But are you ...