Psychedelic Lightning Head, Gordon Dylan Johnson. Source: GDJ/Pixabay The modern scientific worldview is predominantly grounded in classical Newtonian physics. It considers matter the only reality.

Is our sense of freedom an illusion? Source: Frank McKenna | Unsplash How free is our will? We make countless choices every day. From small decisions like what to wear to major life choices like ...

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 ...

"Out of meat, how do you get thought? That's the grandest question." So said philosopher Patricia Churchland to Robert Lawrence Kuhn, the producer and host of the acclaimed PBS program, Closer to ...

As AI rapidly grabs tasks once exclusive to humans, the value of being human can become murky. AI can replicate complex engineering tasks, create sophisticated videos, and automate workflows that once ...

A pair of recent studies examined why sophisticated levels of consciousness evolved in some animals, but not in others. In the first study, philosophers outlined the ALARM theory that shows how three ...

Consciousness evolved in stages, starting with basic survival responses like pain and alarm, then expanding into focused awareness and self-reflection. These layers help organisms avoid danger, learn ...

According to Penrose and Hameroff, consciousness and free will arise in the imagining of these many future states, and the 'choice' of which to collapse the superposition into, in a way that's ...

Quantum consciousness explores the potential connection between quantum mechanics and consciousness, questioning whether quantum mechanics is responsible for free will. Sir Roger Penrose examines ...