Consciousness is a private affair. We can only infer that others have conscious experiences like we do, for essentially three ...

The study proposes the concept of “AI Psychology”, a new field aimed at understanding the mental states of advanced AI, much ...

For the nonhuman animal cause, the 19th century’s end would bring to a close a defining period—a transformative 30-year era ...

New research seems to suggest bonobos could possess some form of theory of mind. But there's a bit more to it than that.

Consciousness is one of the great mysteries of science. We know we have it — we think, feel and experience the world — but ...

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These animals are labeled as dangerous; however, sharks are most often the victims. They’re killed by the millions every year due to the high demand for their fins. Such demands for shark fins lead to ...

Should chimpanzees have rights? What about elephants? Or ants? Or microorganisms? And how about artificial intelligence? These questions are at the heart of The Moral Circle: Who matters, what ...

Magic mushroom research reveals that their effects are not so much about hallucinations but about a less-inhibited self.

Terry Sejnowski is laboratory head of the computational neurobiology laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the author of ChatGPT and The Future of AI. Motley Fool host Ricky ...

It's not about creating consciousness for its own sake ... tubular protein structures found within the cells of all plants, animals, fungi and many unicellular organisms – "may be ideal quantum ...

Our mission at SCCS is to advance the scientific and philosophical understanding of consciousness and to use the insights from this research for the benefit of society, medicine and technology. As ...