One scientist’s unorthodox method could finally explain where your “soul” goes when you die, precognition, and everything in ...

I took a shot and I wrote an article to a scientific journal, and next thing you know, it went through the peer review ...

A new research paper argues that emerging brain–computer interface (BCI) technologies are not just medical tools but ...

New research offers a way to identify consciousness in living and artificial systems.

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

What is the best way to map human consciousness? I was recently reading Anil Seth’s excellent book, Being You: A New Science of Consciousness, and I was pleased by the frame he offered. Here, I show ...

In the era of large language models and talks of artificial general intelligence, scientists are understandably reinvigorated to understand the inner workings of human consciousness— and there are a ...

Academic leaders from around the world penned an open letter calling on artificial intelligence developers to learn more about consciousness as artificial intelligence (AI) systems advance rapidly, ...

A recent OpEd piece reminded me how muddled the concept of human consciousness can be*. It also reminded me that we need an approach that blends the best of both psychology and philosophy. Careful ...

There is a new review of books in Nature, Consciousness: what it is, where it comes from — and whether machines can have it, where the author wrote, “I consider the indicators as signifying the ...

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, ...

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 ...