Explore the 2026 Conscious Life Expo's healing tech, frequency devices, and consciousness keynotes-plus the questions worth ...

Consciousness studies is too much like the blind men with the elephant. Here's an explanation for the blind spot and how we can work around it.

Beyond spirited dinner party debate, establishing which creatures have consciousness matters in terms of animal welfare and conservation policy. A Michigan State University philosophy scholar has ...

In 2022, a Google engineer claimed one of the company’s AIs was sentient. He lost his job, but the story stuck. For a brief moment, questions of machine consciousness spilled out of science fiction ...

When René Descartes watched a mechanical figure move with lifelike precision in the 17th century, the scene unsettled him. The machine behaved like a person, yet no one believed it could feel. That ...

Why does consciousness exist? This question lies at the heart of my book, A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness, in which I argue that consciousness evolved to help animals navigate ...

But two new papers on the possibility of consciousness in animals and AI suggest new theories for how to test this – one that strikes a middle ground between sensationalism and knee-jerk scepticism ...

I cannot believe we are still debating consciousness. For self-preservation, we must be conscious of where we are and what’s happening around us. Our sense of sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch etc.