Calling consciousness an "entropic engine" points to something psychologically obvious: selfhood costs energy. Maintaining a stable "me" model across time, contexts, and internal contradictions ...

Streaming shows like Black Mirror, Severance, and The Good Place have reimagined the timeless themes of It's a Wonderful Life ...

As Zosia returns, Carol lays down the charm to learn as much as she can. But will she fall for the hive mind in the process?

Nigerian pop stars are often accused of singing about love and money and ignoring social issues. Falz isn’t one of them.

A University of Cambridge philosopher argues that our evidence for what constitutes consciousness is far too limited to tell ...

Science can now explain the connection between information and consciousness. The answer is simpler—and stranger—than you might expect. The key is self-reference.

A growing number of new studies have found that, at least for some cells, death isn’t the end, but the beginning of something wholly unexpected.

The artist’s sentient autonomous cars are endowed with intelligence but stripped of agency, drifting through a ruined society ...

New work explores why consciousness evolved and what observing birds can teach us about its biological purpose.

For most of human history, consciousness has been something that scientists have talked around. It hasn’t really been ...

Consciousness evolved in stages, starting with basic survival responses like pain and alarm, then expanding into focused awareness and self-reflection. These layers help organisms avoid danger, learn ...

A pair of recent studies examined why sophisticated levels of consciousness evolved in some animals, but not in others. In the first study, philosophers outlined the ALARM theory that shows how three ...