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

I recently attended a panel discussion titled Being Human in the Age of Intelligent Machines. At one point during the evening, a philosophy professor from Yale said that if a machine ever became ...

What is consciousness? This question has occupied philosophers for millennia and remains a major mystery of science today. Aristotle believed that consciousness exists as a continuum. So plants have a ...

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 ...

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

The only reason humans know about the existence of consciousness — the phenomenon of having subjective feelings and experiences — is because we have feelings and experiences. But despite centuries of ...

As you read this, it is likely you are conscious. After all, you are seeing words and are aware of their meanings. You may also be aware of your phone or computer screen and some of the things ...

The biological cycle of our existence seems relatively straightforward: we’re born, we live, we die. The end. But when you examine existence at the cellular level, things get a bit more interesting.