Science has done many things that seem miraculous. Why not transfer your consciousness to a machine?
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The feasibility of mind uploading rests on three core assumptions. How plausible is each one, really?
Big names in consciousness research have signed an open letter attacking ‘integrated information theory’ as pseudoscience, sparking uproar.
Plus, how a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony using AI. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Philosophers say now is the time to mull over what qualities should grant an artificially intelligent machine moral standing.
Are you a worry wart? Not to worry. Turns out you were born that way, to some degree. Humans have a default mode in their brains that lead them to worry, but there are many ways to switch gears.
When seconds stretch into minutes.
The only consciousness you can ever be certain about is your own. But there are different types of clues that could hint at what’s happening within another entity.
If consciousness is a by-product of our brains’ nonconscious processes, where does that leave us?
A resonance theory of consciousness suggests that the way all matter vibrates, and the tendency for those vibrations to sync up, might be a way to answer the so-called ‘hard problem’ of consciousness.
Researchers’ views depend in part on what technology is (or will be) capable of – and in part on what consciousness actually is.
There remain many mysteries that are beyond science. Does that mean that a God truly exists? A scholar gives reasons for this possibility.
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Affiliate Guest in Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland
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Lead, Cognition and Consciousness Imaging Group, Division of Anaesthesia, University of Cambridge
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University
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Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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Professor of Philosophy, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, San José State University
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Professor of Medicine and Population Health Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School
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Senior lecturer, The University of Western Australia
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PhD Candidate in Medical Sciences, Coma Science Group, University of Liège, Belgium, Université de Liège
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Emeritus Professor of Psychology, UCL
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Hon Professor of Neuropsychology, Cardiff University
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Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology