As more people use AI assistants and chatbots for everyday tasks, a curious phenomenon is emerging: a growing number of users ...

Ask a chatbot if it’s conscious, and it will likely say no—unless it’s Anthropic’s Claude 4. “I find myself genuinely uncertain about this,” it replied in a recent conversation. “When I process ...

Consciousness, the essence of our subjective experiences, remains one of the grandest mysteries of modern science. According to a 2022 paper published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, four dominant ...

This is Part 4 of a five-part series on cognition and consciousness. Part 1 explored what we mean by "cognition." In Parts 2 and 3, we examined neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux’s strict definition, which ...