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What is the best way to map human consciousness? I was recently reading Anil Seth’s excellent book, Being You: A New Science of Consciousness, and I was pleased by the frame he offered. Here, I show ...

Humans have pondered this question since the times of the ancient Greeks, and the Myth of bronze automaton Talos — forged by the god Hephaestus to protect the island of Crete — says Ray Kurzweil in ...

Clark is Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the University of Sussex. For more on the picture of human minds as action-based prediction machines, see Clark, A. The Experience Machine: How Our Minds ...

In a major step forward for cognitive science and artificial intelligence, researchers at Helmholtz Munich have introduced Centaur, an AI system that can simulate and predict human behavior with a ...

IT IS strange to think that we still don’t know what our brains are made of. Yet, despite decades of research and the development of high-tech scanning techniques, that is the truth. Sure, we know the ...

If you are willing to lie very still in a giant metal tube for 16 hours and let magnets blast your brain as you listen, rapt, to hit podcasts, a computer just might be able to read your mind. Or at ...

A consortium of scientists published the first complete map of a fruit fly's brain Wednesday in the journal Nature. Identifying and charting the 130,000 neurons and 50 million connections inside the ...

In the middle of the night, the world can sometimes feel like a dark place. Under the cover of darkness, negative thoughts ...