Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. I would think so. Our general understanding of what it means ...

In his new book, the celebrated author explains why we need ‘consciousness hygiene’ to defend ourselves from AI and ...

Scientists and philosophers studying the mind have discovered how little we know about our inner experiences ...

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

If artificial consciousness never emerges, safeguards will look cautious but harmless. If it does, safeguards may be the ...

A physicist proposes that consciousness is the fundamental basis of reality, with matter and spacetime emerging from it.

Consciousness has long been treated as philosophy’s most stubborn mystery, yet a growing body of neuroscience is now tying our inner life to specific, testable brain mechanisms. A leading MIT ...

The human brain is the most complex information integrator known in the universe. With 86 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections between them, the brain gives us our rich subjective experiences ...

Let’s swing for the fences with this one, shall we? Some questions are timeless because they’re so fundamental that everyone ponders them at some point in life (often—for me at least—in the shower).

Over the years, many learned colleagues in the field of neuroscience have approached me and asked, “Why do people say that consciousness is a mystery? I just don’t see what the mystery is.” Oftentimes ...