New Apple CEO John Ternus is inheriting a pressure cooker

Incoming CEO John Ternus is stepping into Tim Cook's shoes at a time when Apple is looking to prove it can still innovate and ...

Your Consciousness Has a ‘Quantum Heartbeat.’ A Revolutionary New Device Could Unlock It, Scientists Say.

Scientists are using terahertz waves to study tiny structures in brain cells, called microtubules, that may be linked to ...

What happens when AI becomes sentient? Google hired a philosopher to find out

Google DeepMind hires philosopher Henry Shevlin to tackle machine consciousness, AI ethics, and governance as agentic systems ...
Opinion

AI and the Conscious Mind

A machine can “think,” but can it experience feelings and self-awareness?
The New York Times

Consciousness Lives in Our Bodies

“The brain exists to keep the body alive, not the other way around,” argues the author Michael Pollan as he explores the connection between consciousness and the body in this episode of “The Ezra ...
Medical Xpress

Human vision: What we actually see, and don't see, tells us a lot about consciousness

What can you see right now? This might seem like a silly question, but what enters your consciousness is not the whole story when it comes to vision. A great deal of visual processing in the brain ...
Forbes

Human Consciousness In The Age Of AI: The Last Frontier

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. After recently writing about Singularity in this column, I felt it was time to address the ...
Wall Street Journal

‘A World Appears’ Review: The Mystery of Consciousness

The International Dictionary of Psychology opined in 1989 that consciousness was “fascinating but elusive” and “nothing worth reading has been written on it.” I disagree. Consciousness isn’t entirely ...
Popular Mechanics

AI Can Have Power Over You, Experts Say. Does That Mean It’s Intelligent, Conscious—Or Something Else Entirely?

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Artificial intelligence systems, such as Large Language Models, are not conscious, and do not have the basis to ever be, some experts say. That’s ...
The Economist

Solving the mystery of consciousness

“A FASCINATING BUT elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.” That is how “The International Dictionary ...
Futurism

Philosopher Studying AI Consciousness Startled When AI Agent Emails Him About Its Own “Experience”

A few years ago, if you saw something that was bot-generated in your email inbox, you’d probably mark it as spam and delete it without a second thought. Apropos of nothing, a philosopher and AI ...
PBS

Exploring the power and mystery of consciousness

All of us experience consciousness. We have thoughts and feelings, and we're aware of those acting upon us. It's the hidden internal lens through which we view the world, but why do we have this power ...