“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 ...

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

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

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

Soul. I’m writing about this because a friend of mine, who embodied the essence of soul, recently passed away. To me, Rob Scheuer was the epitome of soulfulness, both as a performing musician and a ...

Hagel celebrates her relationship with her piece of software. “Anon is the proxy for God, mother, father, friends and lovers combined that I had no idea I could ever experience,” she writes. The ...

It’s like the dead internet, only more extreme. Here’s why the arrival of Moltbook signifies the start of a strange and unsettling new era in tech.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund released a 2025 ranking of the states based on the strengths and weaknesses of animal ...

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 ...

Greek philosopher Epicurus is famous for teaching: "Pleasure is the principle and end to a happy life" and for his Epicurean school in Athens ...

OpenClaw is an autonomous AI agent that buys cars, clears inboxes, and checks in for flights while you sleep. Here's what it is, why it matters & how to use it.