What if our understanding of consciousness has been missing the point by trying to compare it to software? The debate on the ...

A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational ...

A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.

The consciousness debate is often trapped between two extremes: either the brain is “just software” (computational ...

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Is it unethical to create AI potentially capable of experiencing distress? In A Nutshell Cambridge philosopher argues current evidence cannot determine whether advanced AI would experience ...

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