Artificial intelligence can process information with remarkable sophistication, but can it ever possess consciousness?

A controversial theory linking visions of hell in near-death experiences to the idea that reality is a simulated world has ...

New Zealand doctor Orson Wedgwood argues that near-death experiences suggest Earth is a God-created simulation, testing human ...

A reoccurring pattern amongst people having near-death experiences has now been tied to the wild theory that the human race ...

At the end of the first part, we touched upon the concept of qualia. The "redness" we feel is a subjective experience that cannot be directly shared with others. This gives rise to a very interesting ...

Logic simulation is an interesting beast. Most engineers know what it does and what it's for, but few understand its subtle ramifications. Several techniques exist for verifying the functionality of a ...

1.03pp. When I first saw this number, I doubted my own eyes. Why does the survival rate of evacuees barely change even when the warning calling for evacuation is delayed by several minutes? The ...

Abyssal whirlpools lurking somewhere in deep space, swallowing light and guarding the mysteries of the universe. That is what most of us imagine when we think of black holes. We would be surprised to ...

In a controversial 2025 paper, a researcher proposed a theory that consciousness may give rise to matter—not the other way around. Should this theory hold up, it would rewrite our understanding of ...

Anil Seth is one of the world’s leading neuroscientists studying consciousness and has spent three decades working on one of the hardest questions in science: what consciousness is and where it comes ...

Eon Systems mapped the brain of a fruit fly and simulated its behaviour on a computer. The company ultimately aims to map the human brain and replicate it in digital form. These days, artificial ...

Shortly before his death, the physicist Richard Feynman inscribed these legendary words onto a blackboard: “What I cannot create, I do not understand.” AI researchers have really taken this idea to ...