In the age of AI, what differentiates humans from robots? What makes humans … human? To find answers, many people are ...

A leading computer scientist believes the simulation theory, the idea that we live in a simulated reality, could actually ...

Researchers have revealed in unprecedented detail how three chemicals interact in the brain to control the transition between sleep, wakefulness, attention and arousal.

PCWorld reports on Anthropic’s discovery of the ‘J-space,’ an internal workspace where AI model Claude processes concepts and thoughts during reasoning. This breakthrough helps explain unpredictable ...

Artificial intelligence can process information with remarkable sophistication, but can it ever possess consciousness?

New Zealand doctor Orson Wedgwood argues that near-death experiences suggest Earth is a God-created simulation, testing human ...

Logic simulation is an interesting beast. Most engineers know what it does and what it's for, but few understand its subtle ramifications. Several techniques exist for verifying the functionality of a ...

1.03pp. When I first saw this number, I doubted my own eyes. Why does the survival rate of evacuees barely change even when the warning calling for evacuation is delayed by several minutes? The ...

Abyssal whirlpools lurking somewhere in deep space, swallowing light and guarding the mysteries of the universe. That is what most of us imagine when we think of black holes. We would be surprised to ...

Consciousness expansion refers to the technical enhancement of the range, depth, diversity, and interconnectedness of an individual's subjective experience. In this paper, we define this not as a mere ...

In a controversial 2025 paper, a researcher proposed a theory that consciousness may give rise to matter—not the other way around. Should this theory hold up, it would rewrite our understanding of ...