When we study how large language models “rationalize,” we will see the foibles of human consciousness that we have been ...

There is a new review of books in Nature, Consciousness: what it is, where it comes from — and whether machines can have it, where the author wrote, “I consider the indicators as signifying the ...

Numerous videos regarding a declassified CIA document on manifestation, the gateway experience, and the Law of Attraction have recently gone viral. What does it all mean?

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 ...

From the vantage point of the Unified Theory Of Knowledge (UTOK), we can frame the root of many modern philosophical confusions via the "Enlightenment Gap." This refers to the fact that the ...

In the era of large language models and talks of artificial general intelligence, scientists are understandably reinvigorated to understand the inner workings of human consciousness— and there are a ...

For decades, scientists have thought that human consciousness arises from the newest and most sophisticated parts of the brain. But a Cambridge scientist now claims that the fundamental basis of our ...

Human consciousness requires arousal (i.e., wakefulness) and awareness Brain imaging studies over the last decade have produced connectivity maps of the cortical networks that sustain awareness, but ...

In hospitals and trauma units around the world, some patients who come close to death describe extraordinary and vivid experiences. They talk about floating above their own bodies, traveling through ...

David Ryan Polgar is the founder and president of the nonprofit All Tech Is Human, which works with Silicon Valley companies ...

This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence program. The human species has long grappled with the question of what makes ...

Evolution often examines animals on an individualistic level, but more modern ideas explore how evolution can impact genetics and cultures and societies. A new paper from two U.K. neuropsychologists ...