Take a moment and consider how you define mind relative to consciousness. In reflecting on questions such as: Can something have a mind, but not be conscious? Can something be conscious, but not have ...

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

The biological cycle of our existence seems relatively straightforward: we’re born, we live, we die. The end. But when you examine existence at the cellular level, things get a bit more interesting.

A growing number of professional institutions are seriously looking at questions involving consciousness and what happens to it after we die.

The best-selling author grapples with big questions about A.I., consciousness and the distractions polluting our minds.

Researchers are edging closer to experiments that claim to supply artificial intelligence with a missing ingredient for subjective experience, yet the scientific community remains sharply divided over ...