In Newen and Montemayor’s evolutionary framework, basic arousal developed first. It’s like nature’s security alarm, warning ...

Fort Myers residents can look forward to the debut of "The Consciousness Connection" by a local filmmaker at the Fort Myers Film Festival this spring. The film explores whether human consciousness can ...

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. AI researcher working with the UN and others to drive social change. Feb 07, 2025, 03:28pm EST Humans have been on an elusive ...

What does it mean for God not only to take on flesh but to take on a very specific and highly individualized human ...

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 ...

Re “What Is It Like to Be a Computer?,” by Barbara Gail Montero (Opinion guest essay, Nov. 10): Dr. Montero’s essay argues that artificial intelligence may one day become conscious. But I wonder if ...

From the vantage point of the Unified Theory Of Knowledge (UTOK), we can frame the root of many modern philosophical confusions via the "Enlightenment Gap." This refers to the fact that the ...

What gives rise to human consciousness? Are some parts of the brain more important than others? Scientists began tackling these questions in more depth about 35 years ago. Researchers have made ...

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 ...