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At the core of Mustafa Suleyman's argument isn't the threat of AI gaining consciousness, but the belief that it already is.
Artificial Intelligence

Top Microsoft AI Boss Concerned AI Will Start to Demand Rights

By Joe Wilkins

Scientists were astonished to find that recirculating preserving agents through a severed pig's head caused its brain to show signs of life.
Developments

Doctors Intrigued by Treatment That Makes Dead Brains Show Signs of Life

By Victor Tangermann

As scientists continue brains in labs, one neuroscientist is asking the hard question: can lab-grown brains ever truly be conscious?
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Are Growing Brains in Labs. Could They Become Conscious?

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a recent survey, a pair of researchers found that many ChatGPT users have interesting misconceptions about the OpenAI chatbot.
OpenAI

Most Users Think ChatGPT Is Conscious, Survey Finds

By Noor Al-Sibai

A groundbreaking theory claims that everything in existence possesses some form of consciousness — including the Sun itself. 
Off-World

Fringe Theory Claims the Sun May Be Conscious

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers noticed a surge in brain activity that is correlated with consciousness even after two comatose patients' hearts stopped beating.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Detect Surge of Brain Activity in Dying Coma Patients

By Victor Tangermann

Without consciousness, AI-powered chatbots are doomed to turn into dangerous sociopaths, Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano warns.
Artificial Intelligence

Neuroscientist Warns That Current Generation AIs Are Sociopaths

By Victor Tangermann

A scientist is attempting to build a framework for understanding "plant neurobiology," with the hope of answering the question: are plants conscious?
Science & Energy

New Experiments Examine Whether Plants Might Be Conscious Beings

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A controversial theory suggesting that quantum effects in the brain could explain consciousness may hold more weight than scientists originally thought.
Quantum Physics

Experiment Suggests That Consciousness May Be Rooted in Quantum Physics

By Victor Tangermann

Cognitive neuroscience professor Guillaume Thierry explores the experience of death and how long our brains can stil process information after we die.
Neuroscience and Brain

Neuroscientist Ponders Whether People Remain Conscious After Having Their Heads Chopped Off

By Victor Tangermann

Las Vegas real estate mogul Robert Bigelow is offering up $1 million in prizes for the best evidence for the survival of consciousness after death.
Future Society

Space CEO Offers $1 Million for Evidence of Life After Death

By Victor Tangermann

A molecular geneticist and quantum biologist argues that our entire conscious experience comes from a field of wayward electromagnetic waves in our brain.
Energy

New Research Claims That Consciousness Itself Is an Energy Field

By Dan Robitzski

A team of psychophysicists believe they've figured out how consciousness works in our mind. If so, they would also have settled a 1,500-year-old debate.
Science & Energy

Psychophysicists: Your Brain Might Not Be as Conscious as You Think

By Dan Robitzski

A new study on fruit flies found ways to quantitatively measure the level of consciousness that a fly was currently experiencing.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Claim New Method Can Measure Consciousness

By Dan Robitzski

Renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch argues that developing conscious artificial intelligence will require entirely new hardware.
Artificial Intelligence

Neuroscientist: Conventional Computers Will Never Be Conscious

By Dan Robitzski

The creators of Integrated Information Theory, the bizarre model that suggests the universe could be consciousness, are doubling down on the idea.
Science & Energy

These Mathematicians Think the Universe May Be Conscious

By Dan Robitzski