Some philosophers think that there is a hard problem of consciousness: No matter how much scientists learns about neural processes, they can never explain why all this processing is accompanied by ...

David Chalmers’ essay on the hard problem of consciousness has sparked many analyses, arguments, and counterclaims. Here I explain why we should think about the hard problem as two different problems, ...

Of the 800m people using ChatGPT every week, only a vanishingly small number will have seriously considered whether ChatGPT might have experiences worth caring about. AI welfare — the project of ...

One scientist’s unorthodox method could finally explain where your “soul” goes when you die, precognition, and everything in ...

“A FASCINATING BUT elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.” That is how “The International Dictionary ...

New book from Oaklea Connects the AI Consciousness Debate to the “central mystery of mind” & cites evidence consciousness may be a fundamental aspect of reality This is not a rejection of science.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption ...

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