Scientists still don’t know how the brain turns physical activity into thoughts, feelings, and awareness—but a powerful new tool may help crack the mystery. Researchers at MIT are exploring ...

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Last week, Anthropic released what it calls Claude’s Constitution, a 30,000-word document outlining the company’s vision for ...

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, scientists could figure out which parts of the brain are activated when ...

Recently, there has been convergence of thought by researchers in the fields of memory, perception, and neurology that the same neural circuitry that produces conscious memory of the past not only ...

Consciousness remains undefined, raising questions about whether awareness can be measured, shared, or even exists beyond the brain.

The researchers found 68 articles that analyzed theoretical aspects of consciousness and that were published between 2007 and 2017 in English or Italian. Together, they represent 29 different types of ...

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Anthropic published a new constitution for Claude on Wednesday, expanding the document from 2,700 words to 23,000 and, for ...