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Before we can test for AI consciousness, we need to understand how consciousness actually emerges, experts say.

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And now A.I. is on its way to doing something even more remarkable: becoming conscious. This will happen in the same way it became intelligent. As we interact with increasingly sophisticated A.I., we ...

Consciousness has long been treated as philosophy’s most stubborn mystery, yet a growing body of neuroscience is now tying ...

A small percentage of people with epilepsy experience a state of “oneness” with the world just before their seizures. The ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

Scientists have spent decades trying to understand whether the layered sheet of tissue that covers your brain follows one ...

Those at the end of life cross into mental landscapes the rest of us can only guess at. Their reports from that frontier ...