The brain is the reason humans are at the top of the food chain, but many questions remain unanswered. Now, scientists are ...

The possibility of uploading human consciousness into a computer or machine, once a staple of science fiction, has entered ...

Mustafa Suleyman says that designing AI systems to exceed human intelligence—and to mimic behavior that suggests ...

Recent research reveals that a blank mind may be closer to your brain’s default setting, while thinking and imagining are add ...

More than half a billion people around the world have downloaded artificial-intelligence chatbot companion apps such as ...

According to LeDoux, the brain economizes by relying on habits and automatic responses, reserving the more energetically ...

If AI can’t ever be conscious, then companies building it have nothing to answer for. No unsettling questions. No ethics ...

Tech mogul Elon Musk's recent philosophical post on the nature of reality has sparked widespread interest. His ventures like ...

Many philosophers seem to regard consciousness as lying outside the laws of physics, but top physicists seem to disagree.