Walk into consciousness labs, and you will mostly find studies on humans relying on verbal reports. This evidence is then ...

Consciousness evolved in stages, starting with basic survival responses like pain and alarm, then expanding into focused awareness and self-reflection. These layers help organisms avoid danger, learn ...

New work explores why consciousness evolved and what observing birds can teach us about its biological purpose.

Coffee Shop Confessions, Co-created by Grant Brenner and Claude: "I don't know what I am anymore," she says, stirring oat milk into her latte, thumb still scrolling through her phone where her AI ...

The Save Darfur Coalition sprung into being in the mid-2000s in response to the haunting spike in murders orchestrated by ...

The workers who pose for artists at historic organizations like the Art Students League say they are overworked and underpaid ...

The difference is that arthouse is art, and knows it. These are films which proudly aim beyond mere money-making for multinational media conglomerates. They push at the boundaries of the form, explore ...

That’s the crux of Pop Mech ’s new story, “Human Consciousness Comes From a Higher Dimension, Scientist Claims—Meaning It ...

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

The philosophical and scientific concept of a human existing without consciousness. Reporter's notebook: House exodus threatens Johnson's grip on power as over 40 members head for exit A US aircraft ...

As an agnostic on such matters, but a fellow subscriber to Robert Lawrence Kuhn’s hunch that the ultimate nature of consciousness is the key data point to understand humanity’s existence – be it ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational ...