When researchers ask them to imagine something familiar, they might have a concept of what it is, and words and associations ...

“Alive” is obviously a loaded term; the more frequently used word is “conscious.” If you ask Anthropic if the company thinks Claude is alive, the company will flatly deny it, but stop short of saying ...

After changing how we eat and how we trip, the author returns to his garden — and the page — to examine the mystery of ...

In his new book, “A World Appears,” Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a ...

Michael Pollan, the American journalist whose edict “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants” became an international fridge ...

Michael Pollan’s lucid and lively writing on the science of everyday life—plant biology, nutrition, cooking—has made him one of the most popular nonfiction writers around. I ...

Scientists and philosophers studying the mind have discovered how little we know about our inner experiences ...

In his new book A World Appears, the journalist explores the mysteries of the human brain - and whether computers could ever catch up ...

Richard Jeffery Wagner, PhD explores love, free will, and sentient companionship in a near future shaped by technology ...

For Anil Seth, another prominent neuroscientist, consciousness is a “controlled hallucination” because we never experience objective reality, whether externally in the world or within our minds. The ...

Are childhood experiences and altered states of consciousness in adults closer than we think? Early ways of knowing in ...

Michael Pollan’s A World Appears tackles the lofty question of consciousness.