consciousness
10 stories and discussions about consciousness, aggregated from every source we track.
We often assume a smart enough AI will eventually become conscious. But a new theoretical framework argues consciousness evolved specifically for biological self-preservation—meaning today's highly capable AI…
How general anaesthetics work is still not fully understood, but they are revealing clues about the nature of consciousness.
We suggest that there is confusion between why consciousness developed and what additional functions, through continued evolution, it has co-opted....
The assumption that waking life consists of a stream of conscious representations has inadvertently led consciousness science to its current impasse.
Most religions can be seen as a social technology that enable cooperation, ultimately enabling a society to be able to better preserve and d...
Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.