Browsing: Conscious

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.Over the past three and a half decades, journalist and author Michael Pollan…

Unconsciousness induced by the widely used drug propofol is marked by characteristic changes in electrical activity. Credit: Abed Zagout/Anadolu/GettyScientists have identified a distinctive brain-wave pattern that…

Consciousness researchers studying “islands of awareness” have found that disconnected brains likely sink into a strange form of deep sleep

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Today we’re going to talk about an AI chatbot that appears to believe it might, just…

Ask a chatbot if it’s conscious, and it will likely say no—unless it’s Anthropic’s Claude 4. “I find myself genuinely uncertain about this,” it replied in…