Consciousness remains science’s greatest mystery. A new study explores how it arises—and why solving it could reshape ...

Is consciousness everywhere? In every rock and atom? That is what panpsychists like the philosopher Philip Goff believe. They urge us to revolutionize or abandon physics itself to accommodate ...

This argument aligns with the so-called hard problem of consciousness, which asks why subjective experience exists at all. The author maintains that increasing computational complexity does not ...

Consciousness is one of the unsolved mysteries that great thinkers across many disciplines have attempted to elucidate. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines consciousness simply as “the quality or ...

The brain in a jar is a different inquiry than traditional questions about artificial intelligence. The brain in a jar asks whether thinking requires a thinker. The possibility of artificial ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. Last year, scientists inferentially detected the existence of ...

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Mashupye Herbert Maserumule received funding from the National Research Foundation for his doctoral work on Good Governance in the New Partnership For Africa's Development. He is affiliated to the ...

As artificial intelligence continues to evolve at a breathtaking pace, the conversation has shifted from What can AI do? to ...