“Our conscious awareness is everything. And the fact that it's still so mysterious to scientists and to all of humanity, the fact that it's still one of the great unsolved mysteries makes it something that everyone can be excited about and that inspires awe in everyone.”

The overlooked reason why "AI consciousness" isn't coming anytime soon.

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The child has no control at all and the adult tries to control too much. But there is a third way.

Many, from neuroscientists to philosophers to anesthesiologists, have claimed to understand consciousness. Do physicists? Does anyone?

"Everything that we care about, everything we experience, everything we know, we know it through our conscious awareness of it."

"Is it possible that consciousness is a much more basic phenomenon in nature and is essentially pervading everything?"

On a cosmic scale, our existence seems insignificant and inconsequential. But from another perspective, humans are completely remarkable.

Our “embodied minds” suggest an eventual escape from mortality via computer is unlikely.

Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.

An excerpt from renowned neuropsychologist Nicholas Humphrey’s book “Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness.”

Journalist Steven Kotler on digital immortality and the tech that could keep us “alive,” forever.

What is perception, really? Philosopher Alva Noë on why perception is a puzzling phenomenon:

Survey data suggests that our bodily perceptions of love extend far beyond the heart.

Do humans share one consciousness? This psychologist says yes.

Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.

The dying brain experiences a surge of electrical activity. Could this help explain the mysterious phenomena of near-death experiences?

Some say that the Sun is a green-yellow color, but our human eyes see it as white, or yellow-to-red during sunset. What color is it really?

A University of Oxford professor explains how conscious machines are possible.

Do humans have souls, or are we just particles? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains.

Humanity is in trouble. Here's how aliens could help.

Debates about the existence of free will traditionally have been fought by two competing camps: those who believe in free will and those who don’t because they believe the Universe […]

Is science destined to crack the code of consciousness—and how would we even go about it?

What creates our private, inner universes is still a mystery.

The phenomenon of “digital dementia” might not be real after all.

Uploading your mind is not a pathway to immortality. Instead, it will create a possibly hostile digital doppelgänger.

From superstition to religion, we are surrounded by supernatural thinking. Is that a bad thing?

A new finding that unconsciously processed images are distributed to higher-order brain networks requires the revision of a popular theory of consciousness.

You can learn things 250% faster by unlocking your ‘flow state.’

Signals from the environment, such as those detected by your sense organs, have no inherent psychological meaning. Your brain creates the meaning.