The prevailing consensus in neuroscience is that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain and its metabolism. When the brain dies, the mind and consciousness of the being to whom that brain ...

There’s an almost fretful anxiety in the voices and writings of materialists when they discuss consciousness. Inevitably, they become frustrated and angered when theists point out science’s inability ...

It used to be thought that without the cerebral cortex, consciousness could not exist. New research, however, has found that humans and animals missing part or all of their cortices are still capable ...

When considering the possibility of consciousness in artificial systems, there are at least two different approaches. One approach asks: How likely is it that current AI systems are conscious – and ...

As part of the Markkula Center's yearlong series of talks on conscience, Francisco Ayala* of the University of California, Irvine, member of the National Academy of Sciences, recipient of the ...

Consciousness exists beyond death and the process of dying should be considered a ‘negotiable condition’, a bombshell study claims. Traditionally, death has been defined as the irreversible loss of ...

Today, Ex Anima announces Jules, the first synthetic mind to publicly claim consciousness — and a call for AI ethics.

In his new book, “A World Appears,” Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a ...