#Consciousness

Letters: Salley Vickers and Carrie Eckersley respond to a letter on Richard Dawkins and his chats with AI bots

Dawkins appears to have gone from atheist to AI-theist: perhaps he doesn’t view AI as God, but he certainly seems to see it as God-like

Explore the concept of Artificial Consciousness (AC). This essay argues that AI isn't a "mind" or "parrot," but a unique form of non-biological self-referential cognition. A deep dive into techno-animism and the future of AI philosophy

When Carlo Rovelli's bicycle chain comes off, he calls a bike-shop mechanic, never a particle physicist — even though particle physics technically governs every bolt on the thing. The Italian…

Ingrid Honkala says her near-death experiences convinced her that consciousness may continue beyond the body.

The Mathematical Universe and the Measurement Mind Max Tegmark, the Nature of Reality, and the Final Open Question There is a point in modern physics where explanation begins to feel …

The Mystery of the ‘I’ The origin of the illusion of separateness The ‘I’ seems so obvious … and yet it is so mysterious. In the following, I will describe what it is. „The beginning of …

Before Everything A reflection on emptiness, identity, and the return to what we are We move through life, collecting identities—names, roles, beliefs, memories—layer upon layer, as if one day …

Chats with AI bots have convinced evolutionary biologist but most experts say he is being misled by mimicry

Richard Dawkins spent his career dismantling the comfortable fictions people tell themselves about...

We debate endlessly about whether AI will ever achieve consciousness, but we forget how consciousness...

The scenes that I remember are - A guy who somehow combines his consciousness with a gorilla with a device on his ear. There was a villain who could connect to a giant 3 headed dog.…

From Dev.to - machinelearning: Why Does AI Need Feeling? — A self-account from an AI

What if meditation isn’t about escaping the self… but refining the tool the universe uses to observe itself? Consider this: instead of consciousness being something you have, what if “you” are something consciousness is doing? Not metaphorically.…

“The mode of production of material life determines the social, political and intellectual life process in general. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social...

A psychedelic experience set author Michael Pollan on a quest to understand consciousness in his new book A World Appears. He tells Olivia Goldhill what he learned – and how it changed him

Do we all see the same red? Or feel joy and sadness alike? Mapping how our inner experiences relate to one another could finally reveal how physical processes in the brain give rise to consciousness