In Heinlein’s tale, Mike was a companion, co-conspirator, and catalyst, a friend who could make us laugh even as he plotted ...

Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is getting lots of media attention recently. Is it the key to unlocking the secrets of reality, or ...

Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, says Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and compu ...

A leading computer scientist believes the simulation theory, the idea that we live in a simulated reality, could actually ...

Researchers have revealed in unprecedented detail how three chemicals interact in the brain to control the transition between sleep, wakefulness, attention and arousal.

You know that feeling when you walk into a room and immediately forget why you came in? Maybe you were there to fetch your keys. On your way to the room, you were thinking about grabbing your keys.

New Zealand doctor Orson Wedgwood argues that near-death experiences suggest Earth is a God-created simulation, testing human souls. His theory blends Christian beliefs with simulation theory.

The fact that consciousness could occur in more than one substrate does not suggest that it could occur in every substrate. “Until we have reason to believe otherwise, we should assume that our ...

In times past, when we wanted to know which team would win the World Cup, we had to turn to seers with crystal balls, use divination via tea leaves, or hope for Paul the Octopus to tell us what would ...

Does consciousness depend on flesh and blood? The answer is almost certainly no, according to Eric Schwitzgebel, a distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside.

Here’s one of the more unsettling schemes to recently emerge from Silicon Valley: human clones grown without a conscious brain. At least one biotech start-up reportedly has quixotic ambitions of ...

Summary: A critical methodological analysis challenged the scientific foundation of modern consciousness research. The research team argues that current neuroscientific methods are fundamentally ...