A growing body of experimental work on how single bacteria sense and respond to their environment has reopened a long-standing question in biology and philosophy: can an individual cell be conscious?

An intriguing hypothesis suggests that human consciousness may respond to the Earth's natural electromagnetic pulse.

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Elon Musk had a two-word retort for Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei after he said his company’s artificial intelligence models may have gained consciousness.

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Humanity's fate may rest with a mysterious generation of children who believers say have exceptional abilities.

As files associated with the disgraced former financier and noted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein trickle out, critics of the ...

Michael Pollan tells Scientific American why the science of consciousness may ultimately be too subject to our own conscious ...

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Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call the stream of consciousness offers a much richer and more complex blend of ...

In conventional computing, we can draw a clean line between software and hardware. In brains, there is no such separation of different scales. In the brain, everything influences everything else, from ...