When you interact with a large language model (LLM) – one of the systems behind chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude – it can ...

AI chatbots now talk with such ease that it can feel natural to thank them, trust them, even lean on them when life gets hard. That growing comfort is exactly why a group of neuroscientists says an ...

Geoffrey Hinton says chatbots are conscious. But treating human consciousness as mechanical to make room for AI carries a safety risks ...

A philosopher at the University of Cambridge says there’s no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious—and that may remain true for the foreseeable future. According to Dr. Tom McClelland, ...

For centuries, philosophers have grappled with the mystery of consciousness: the unique inner world that seems fundamental to human existence. Despite the long-standing challenge of finding a ...

Written by Bernard D. Beitman M.D. and Ruslana Remennikova, MS. Since the beginning of human civilization, history has shown a correlation between sound and cognitive, mental, and physical wellness. 1 ...

Regarding Stephen Hawley Martin’s op-ed “Is AI Conscious? It Depends What Consciousness Is” (March 26): When a computer chess program trounces a grandmaster, the loser has an unpleasant conscious ...

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

The ‘doorway effect’ suggests that when information is removed from working memory, it immediately seems to leave ...