The entire universe may have an internal mind—or the whole idea of consciousness could be a sham. Here’s why scientists still ...

The AI-sentience conversation was recently elevated in the Anthropic-War Department controversy. Much of it centered on technology advancing faster than legislation can keep up, and when something can ...

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 ...

Ian Sample speaks to author and journalist Michael Pollan about his new book A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness ...

At the mid-point of Alien: Earth 's first episode, the show's protagonist — an android uploaded with the consciousness of a dying child — shakily asks, "If I'm not human, what am I?" By the episode’s ...

A recent OpEd piece reminded me how muddled the concept of human consciousness can be*. It also reminded me that we need an approach that blends the best of both psychology and philosophy. Careful ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Longevity guru Bryan Johnson has long had questions about the bounds of human consciousness. He says smoking a psychedelic found ...

Researchers have had much to say about psychedelic drug use over the decades. Rick Doblin is a U.S. researcher and founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). The ...

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 ...