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 ...

Why do we tend to assume that UFOs are crafts carrying alien beings rather than alien beings themselves? How the UFO ...

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

Artificial intelligence researcher Cameron Berg chugged his drink when he spotted OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman at a party in 2024, and hustled over to ask the CEO whether he thought the emerging ...

Hadronization occurs when two or more quarks—the subatomic building blocks of matter—bind together through the strong nuclear force to form composite particles called hadrons. The most familiar ...

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.

Hinging on the ideas of Copernicus, who concluded that Earth is not as unique as we think it is, two philosophers explored what this might mean for consciousness beyond our planet. They suggest that ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness could arise in many different forms of life, even in beings built from ...