As they near death, some dementia patients recover mental faculties assumed to be long lost. Researchers want to know why.

Watch as scientists explore the idea that consciousness may not be a simple on-or-off state, but something that exists across ...

When you interact with a large language model (LLM)—one of the systems behind chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude—it can feel ...

Working memory is the information we need to access to complete the tasks we’re engaged in right now, and scientists think it ...

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The unconscious brain appears to be far more capable than scientists once believed. Researchers found that patients under general anesthesia could still process language at a sophisticated level, ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson established the Kerner Commission in response to widespread demonstrations over the ...

Could consciousness exist in alien life forms that look nothing like us? Could it even appear in machines? According to a new paper by philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel of the University of California, ...

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. In ...

Anthropic is regarded as a giant among AI companies, but perhaps what it really excels in is anthropomorphism. Earlier this year, the company released an 84-page document titled Claude’s “constitution ...

Are AI models conscious, and if not, could they be in the near future? The possibility is far-fetched, but AI companies seem to feel it’s in their best interests to keep the question as open-ended as ...

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 ...