Larry Fink, president and CEO of investment firm BlackRock, interviewed Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX at the World ...

Many top professionals and leaders may feel uneasy about AI. Here’s why—and what it reveals about human intelligence.

Stanford psychologist Jeremy Bailenson, who studies how immersive environments reshape perception, has shown that extended ...

Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum on Thursday about his vision for a world where there are more robots than ...

Your brain might have a hidden neural layer that puts you in touch with the same “figures” during altered states of ...

The hive mind doesn’t quite fit in the same category of horror as slashers or monsters, but it is its own impressive breed of terror. It’s been a feature of science fiction and horror for decades, ...

'This blessing experience was decisive in convincing me that consciousness lives on beyond the grave' As a medical student, I learned that it was obvious that consciousness was a product of a ...

A philosopher at the University of Cambridge says there’s no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious—and that may remain true for the foreseeable future. According to Dr. Tom McClelland, ...

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum explore why consciousness evolved and why different species developed it in distinct ways. By comparing humans with birds, they show that complex awareness may ...

For decades, scientists assumed that consciousness—the subjective feeling of being aware—was the crowning achievement of the human brain. Other animals, such as birds, lacking a cerebral cortex, were ...

What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum published two articles on this topic. Although ...

Despite decades of investigation, there is still a lack of consensus on answers to many key questions in consciousness research. Split-brain and hemispherectomy patients offer unique insights into ...