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For decades, scientists have thought that human consciousness arises from the newest and most sophisticated parts of the brain. But a Cambridge scientist now claims that the fundamental basis of our ...

Anthropic’s new Claude research reveals a hidden internal “global workspace” that resembles human conscious processing, ...

Evolution often examines animals on an individualistic level, but more modern ideas explore how evolution can impact genetics and cultures and societies. A new paper from two U.K. neuropsychologists ...

While we may enjoy the company of companion animals or a fleeting encounter with wildlife, many people believe humans have a superior consciousness of the world we live in. Every now and then, though, ...

In a paper titled, "Multimodal MRI reveals brainstem connections that sustain wakefulness in human consciousness," published in Science Translational Medicine, a group of researchers at Massachusetts ...

Artificial intelligence can process information with remarkable sophistication, but can it ever possess consciousness?

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From the vantage point of the Unified Theory Of Knowledge (UTOK), we can frame the root of many modern philosophical confusions via the "Enlightenment Gap." This refers to the fact that the ...

Two philosophical thought experiments lead us right into a flurry of questions surrounding the human mind. You decide where you stand. Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered ...

My only complaint—and it’s a small one—about Charles Foster’s Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness is the subtitle. Because of it, when I began reading, I assumed that, ...

There’s an almost fretful anxiety in the voices and writings of materialists when they discuss consciousness. Inevitably, they become frustrated and angered when theists point out science’s inability ...