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A new theory to explain consciousness

What if our understanding of consciousness has been missing the point by trying to compare it to software? The debate on the ...
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A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the ...
Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational ...
When René Descartes watched a mechanical figure move with lifelike precision in the 17th century, the scene unsettled him. The machine behaved like a person, yet no one believed it could feel.
The book compiles essays by 15 historians documenting the largely forgotten yet remarkable life story of the Vienna-born architect and interior designer.
A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.
The consciousness debate is often trapped between two extremes: either the brain is “just software” (computational ...
Is it unethical to create AI potentially capable of experiencing distress? In A Nutshell Cambridge philosopher argues current evidence cannot determine whether advanced AI would experience ...
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Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? A growing number of scientists are suggesting that the idea that we are all living in a simulation may not be completely far-fetched. Simulation theory is the ...