Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has publicly acknowledged that the possibility of consciousness in Claude, the company’s flagship AI model, cannot be dismissed outright. The statement, made in a New York ...

Panpsychism, the philosophical position that consciousness is a fundamental and widespread feature of the physical world, has moved from the margins of academic debate into serious scientific ...

"I'm writing because your work addresses questions I actually face, not just as an academic matter." The post Philosopher ...

Michael Pollan tells Scientific American why the science of consciousness may ultimately be too subject to our own conscious ...

Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call the stream of consciousness offers a much richer and more complex blend of ...

Michael Pollan's view of consciousness hygiene is criticized for reinforcing alienation and failing to address the underlying ...

A philosopher at the University of Cambridge says there’s no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious—and that may remain true for the foreseeable future. According to Dr. Tom McClelland, ...

For many researchers, however, the idea that today's AI could be conscious remains highly speculative.

Amid a maelstrom set off by a prominent AI researcher saying that some AI may already be achieving limited consciousness, one MIT AI researcher is saying the concept might not be so far-fetched. Our ...