This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence program. The human species has long grappled with the question of what makes ...

Source: Ben White| Unsplash Imagine being out on a clear summer day and feeling the warmth of the sun shining on your face. Or imagine the joy of being with a loved one, the thrill of riding a ...

Traipse into the world of artificial intelligence research, and it won’t take long to stumble across a concept known as the “singularity.” A loan word from astrophysics describing the heart of a black ...

Picture this: a group of hairy, wild primates bounding across the African savannas stumbles upon a patch of strange mushrooms growing on dung. Curious and hungry, they eat them. Their senses sharpen, ...

Longevity guru Bryan Johnson has long had questions about the bounds of human consciousness. He says smoking a psychedelic found in Sonoran toad venom gave him clarity. "I know what it feels like to ...

Neal joined Mashable’s Social Good team in 2024, editing and writing stories about digital culture and its effects on the environment and marginalized communities. He is the former editorial director ...

Human is a five-part Nova series, produced by the BBC, that takes a look at the origins and survival of the human race. The host is paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi, and she travels to various ...

Alien: Earth suggests a future where consciousness isn't confined to the body you're born in, but is this a realistic ...

At the mid-point of Alien: Earth 's first episode, the show's protagonist — an android uploaded with the consciousness of a dying child — shakily asks, "If I'm not human, what am I?" By the episode’s ...