From a renowned Vedic scholar, leader of the Maharishi Foundations, and Harvard-trained neuroscientist: a radical new paradigm for understanding Consciousness and finding enlightenment, peace, and ...

Why does consciousness exist? The answer lies in the evolutionary origins of the simplest forms of subjective experience, not ...

Many scientists, even physical scientists, assert that the Holy Grail of science is to understand human consciousness. This human state is even hard to define, but is characterized by a state in which ...

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 ...

In this video, we explore various aspects of artificial intelligence and consciousness, discussing: - AI in science fiction ...

One of the most probable ways we will reach the Singularity is with computers that mimic our brains. But to achieve that, we will have to tackle one of the bigger mysteries of life: consciousness.

Explaining how something as complex as consciousness can emerge from a grey, jelly-like lump of tissue in the head is arguably the greatest scientific challenge of our time. The brain is an ...

If you stop and think about it, the idea that you could understand a complex system by detailed description of one its parts is crazy on the face of it. You are unlikely to get too much insight into ...

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 ...