In our last blog post, CBT and Consciousness: An Application, we explained how consciousness, being the decisive factor, is the ultimate factor behind perception. We explained that both the why of ...

A mathematical analysis suggests that the notion of agency, which is a prerequisite for consciousness, cannot be purely ...

As you read this, it is likely you are conscious. After all, you are seeing words and are aware of their meanings. You may also be aware of your phone or computer screen and some of the things ...

Consciousness is usually defined by neuroscientists as the ability to have subjective experience, such as the experience of tasting an apple or of seeing the redness of its skin. The leading theories ...

Consciousness is the ultimate question of existence. Nothing is more essential than our experience. Yet we have no consensus, and perhaps no clue, about what it actually is. The trouble, in part, is ...

An AI "consciousness" created by Anthropic uses a small internal workspace to organize its ideas without fully developing ...

The science of consciousness has not lived up to expectations. Over the summer, the neuroscientist Christof Koch conceded defeat on his 25-year bet with the philosopher David Chalmers, a lost wager ...

When you interact with a large language model (LLM) – one of the systems behind chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude – it can ...

Are AI models conscious, and if not, could they be in the near future? The possibility is far-fetched, but AI companies seem to feel it’s in their best interests to keep the question as open-ended as ...

The ‘doorway effect’ suggests that when information is removed from working memory, it immediately seems to leave consciousness.