The Search for Where Consciousness Lives in the Brain

But many scientists still believe that the scientific keys to the kingdom of consciousness are within reach. Lately, some are ...
Psychology Today

Splitting the Hard Problem of Consciousness in Two

This blog was co-authored by Gregg Henriques, Ph.D., and John Vervaeke, Ph.D. Since the dawn of human consciousness, people have grappled with the problem of what it is and how it works. In academic ...
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The very hard problem of AI consciousness

Of the 800m people using ChatGPT every week, only a vanishingly small number will have seriously considered whether ChatGPT might have experiences worth caring about. AI welfare — the project of ...
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Out-of-Body Experiences Suggest Consciousness May Exist Outside the Brain, Some Scientists Say

Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption. Although scientists have developed biological-based explanations for ...
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Claude May Have Some Functional Version Of Emotions And Feelings: Anthropic In Claude’s Constitution

AI labs are now saying in official documents that AI systems could possibly have feelings. In a departure from the cautious language ...
The Harvard Crimson

A New Quest for Consciousness

In the 10 minutes before the official start of class, Professor Anne Harrington ’82 somehow managed to cover descriptions of Gilbert Ryle’s classic “category mistake” critique of mind-body dualism, ...
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Quantum Physics Could Finally Explain Consciousness, Scientists Say

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." During the 20th century, researchers pushed the frontiers of science further than ever before with ...