The curious minds at ColdFusion investigate whether robots are nearing human-like consciousness today. Details emerge about ...

A seven-year wait is over for fans of the fictional Harvard professor Robert Langdon, as Seacoast author Dan Brown has ...

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

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in ...

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

One particularly striking story arrived earlier this year: a paper that described how an LLM had passed the Turing Test, an ...

This demonstrated that machines do not need to be conscious to change us. They only need to seem so. If a basic script could persuade people to disclose their innermost worries and secrets, it should ...

Wearing Tilak on any Puja or festive occasion is one of the most common practices any Hindu kid grows up seeing. But why is ...

The "superconscious aspects" of the human mind should be studied and explored just as much as the unconscious and conscious ...

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

Our ability to change our lives depends on realizing a fundamental insight: that life and reality are so much more than we think and believe.

Author Dan Brown is known for storylines that delve into myth and conspiracy theories. His new book — The Secret of Secrets — tackles the ultimate mystery: human consciousness.