NR Narayana Murthy, co-founder of Infosys, reflects on leadership, governance and India’s entrepreneurial future in a wide-ranging conversation with . He argues for compassionate capitalism, founder a ...

This moment of revelation is common to many people who don’t form mental images. They report that they might never have ...

The Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 is widely regarded as the moment that unified Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate. Yet the ...

The undersigned organizations express grave concern about the ongoing persecution of Ukrainian human rights defender Yurii Sheliazhenko, a conscientious ...

Consciousness studies is too much like the blind men with the elephant. Here's an explanation for the blind spot and how we can work around it.

Consciousness researchers studying “islands of awareness” have found that disconnected brains likely sink into a strange form of deep sleep ...

In intensive care units, some patients who appear unconscious occupy a gray zone in their relationship to the world. To better diagnose them and predict their recovery potential, Dragana Manasova, ...

A philosopher at the University of Cambridge says there’s no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious—and that may remain true for the foreseeable future. According to Dr. Tom McClelland, ...

As ChatGPT and other large language models dazzle with increasingly human-like abilities, a fundamental question looms: could these systems ever become conscious? A theoretical paper published in ...

Americans of every profession, including physicians, can agree that reaching their professional goals should never come at the cost of violating their core beliefs or ethical principles. Yet, despite ...

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum explore why consciousness evolved and why different species developed it in distinct ways. By comparing humans with birds, they show that complex awareness may ...

For decades, scientists assumed that consciousness—the subjective feeling of being aware—was the crowning achievement of the human brain. Other animals, such as birds, lacking a cerebral cortex, were ...