Consciousness research in 2025 has shifted from abstract philosophy to concrete lab results, with competing theories now ...

When your mind goes blank, visual stimuli never reaches awareness. Study mapped the unique brain patterns behind these mental ...

Questions about the nature of consciousness remain among the most perplexing areas of modern scientific research, with ...

When we are awake, we seem to experience a continuous stream of sensations, reflections, memories, and impressions that make ...

Take a moment and consider how you define mind relative to consciousness. In reflecting on questions such as: Can something have a mind, but not be conscious? Can something be conscious, but not have ...

Recently I had what amounted to a therapy session with ChatGPT. We talked about a recurring topic that I’ve obsessively inundated my friends with, so I thought I’d spare them the déjà vu. As expected, ...

You’re sitting at home, working at your laptop, and all of a sudden you hear the refrigerator shut off. Before you noticed its sudden silence, were you conscious it was on? That sort of question about ...

A University of Cambridge philosopher argues that our evidence for what constitutes consciousness is far too limited to tell if or when artificial intelligence has made the leap—and a valid test for ...

A philosopher at the University of Cambridge says there’s no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious—and that may remain ...