Defining consciousness: Researchers are refining definitions of consciousness, qualia, and information to better target what exactly needs explaining in the mind–brain problem. Neural clues: Studies ...

Richard Dawkins caught hell on social media for suggesting it does.

Renowned biologist Richard Dawkins suggests that AI chatbots like Claude may appear conscious due to their sophisticated capabilities, sparking debate about AI consciousness. Despite their human-like ...

Dawkins did not express certainty that Claude is conscious. But he pointed out that Claude’s sophisticated abilities are ...

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Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while ...

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Researchers at UC San Francisco and Imperial College London have shown that a single dose of psilocybin, the psychedelic ...

AI won't become conscious, but it may already be reshaping human cognition. The danger isn't machine experience but the slow ...

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We must not fall under the Pygmalion Delusion that AI is "conscious." It is merely a reflection of human intelligence, from ...