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

But many scientists still believe that the scientific keys to the kingdom of consciousness are within reach. Lately, some are ...

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...

Philosopher David Chalmers asks why humans have a sense of self, a constantly running movie full of sensation and internal chatter. He offers two ideas about the nature of consciousness. David ...

What if I were to photograph Sophia—a humanoid robot developed by Hanson Robotics—and then, in a separate session, the ...

This interaction could help explain both why quantum processes can occur within environments like the brain and why we lose ...

This blog was co-authored by Gregg Henriques, Ph.D., and John Vervaeke, Ph.D. Since the dawn of human consciousness, people have grappled with the problem of what it is and how it works. In academic ...

Chalmers, now 50, was born and raised in Australia. His parents split up when he was five. “My father is a medical researcher, a pretty successful scientist and administrator in medicine in Australia… ...

Why did the experience of consciousness evolve from our underlying brain physiology? Despite being a vibrant area of neuroscience, current research on consciousness is characterised by disagreement ...