Researchers across biology, philosophy, and AI are split on what counts as a mind—and whether today’s systems qualify.

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

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 ...

Many top professionals and leaders may feel uneasy about AI. Here’s why—and what it reveals about human intelligence.

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In his first-year seminar dubbed “Could a Robot Ever Be Conscious?” Professor Richard Huskey guides students to discuss theories of consciousness. Through a variety of fields ranging from neuroscience ...

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...

Dr. Karl Friston is a distinguished computational psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and pioneer of modern neuroimaging and, now, AI. He is a leading expert on intelligence, natural as well as artificial.

Consciousness is famously a "hard problem" of science: We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing at a remarkable pace, prompting significant discussions about its potential to surpass biological intelligence. Geoffrey Hinton, a key figure in AI research, ...