Browsing: Consciousness

March 6, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmMichael Pollan explains why AI will never replicate human consciousnessMichael Pollan tells Scientific American why the science…

Think about your breakfast this morning. Can you imagine the pattern on your coffee mug? The sheen of the jam on your half-eaten toast?Most of us…

What was I thinking? This is not as easy or straightforward a question as I would have thought. As soon as you try to record and…

Theorists have proposed many explanations for consciousness. They are startlingly diverse, with different goals, starting points and even definitions of consciousness. To compare them, researchers surveyed…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.The French philosopher and scientist René Descartes famously wrote, “I think, therefore I…

September 2, 20252 min readIs Consciousness the Hallmark of Life?As AI grows more fluent in mimicking human empathy, language and memory, we’re left asking: If a…

August 31, 20253 min readAI Spots Hidden Signs of Consciousness in Comatose Patients before Doctors DoA machine-learning algorithm spotted signs of “covert consciousness” in coma patients—in…

In late 2005, five months after a car accident, a 23-year-old woman lay unresponsive in a hospital bed. She had a severe brain injury and showed…