Key Takeaways Dualism holds that the mind and body are separate, with mental experiences not fully explained by physical ...

When I described the satisfactions of my routine to Roshi Joan during one of our hikes, she smiled: “That’s the sacredness of ...

Do trees have minds? A friend posed this question during one of the high school afternoons we habitually spent—no doubt with too much time on our hands—engaging in amateur philosophical banter. It ...

The origins of consciousness have been debated by philosophers for centuries. Each conscious person has a sense of "being me," which invariably gives rise to the question of where that sense ...

“Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious. There is nothing we know about more directly than consciousness, but it is far from clear how to ...

Scientists from Boston University, Queensland University of Technology, and the University of Toronto are advancing a shared ...

In rethinking whether AI is sentient, we are asking bigger questions about cognition, human-machine interaction and even our own consciousness ...