The ICCS Conference arrives at a moment when consciousness research is becoming harder to contain within any single di ...

Claude Mythos has demonstrated some impressive abilities in finding cybersecurity bugs, but it also has some interesting interests in philosophy. Buried in ...

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It can feel like our thoughts, along with all the sensory inputs and data our brains and bodies receive each day, are processed in some central location—like we each have our own Wizard of Oz in our ...

Author Michael Pollan has tackled plants, food and psychedelics in bestselling books including The Omnivore’s Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind. Now, he has taken on the thorny problem of ...

Psychology, it’s said, has a long past but a short history. A popular version lists three stages. First, around the turn of the 20th century, psychologists tried to capture the stream of conscious ...

Dan Dennett died on April 19 of this year. He was a great philosopher, as many know, and a very good man, as fewer will know. Three decades ago, a few years after his 1991 Consciousness Explained book ...

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave a two-word retort after Anthropic leader Dario Amodei claimed in an interview that he isn’t sure if his company’s AI models have gained consciousness. "Anthropic ...