Philosopher Alexander Batthyany outlines Avshalom Elitzur's 'Bafflement Argument,' which contends that human puzzlement about consciousness itself constitutes evidence that the current physical descri…
A Psychology Today opinion piece argues that the era of AI will not make old professors obsolete but will shift the value from deep specialization to interdisciplinary breadth, citing the extended min…
Google LLC renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and integrated it into its Gemini brand, prompting Steven Johnson, who helped build the tool at Google Labs, to explain in his Adjacent Possible newsle…
A Psychology Today article argues that philosophy of mind is insufficient for understanding artificial intelligence, advocating for psychological and psychoanalytic approaches to grasp large language …
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI, Magnifica Humanitas, states that AI systems do not experience feelings or possess moral conscience, while Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah expressed uncertainty about A…
New studies suggest consciousness may exist in organisms without brains, challenging the long-held assumption that subjective experience requires a neuronal system. Philosopher Natalie Lawrence argues…
Jeff VanderMeer's novel 'Annihilation' serves as a metaphor for how artificial intelligence alters human cognition, according to a new analysis. The piece argues that AI systems like ChatGPT, which no…
Michael Pollan, after years studying consciousness through neuroscience, psychedelics, and philosophy, finds the phenomenon increasingly inexplicable, yet remains certain of his own conscious experien…
Researchers at NYU, in collaboration with David Chalmers and Pavel Izmailov, have discovered that reinforcement learning in language models recruits a functional "welfare axis" — a concept vector that…
Neuroscientist Christof Koch argued at an April 2026 symposium in Porto that consciousness is a fundamental feature of reality, similar to gravity or electric charge, rather than a product of brain ac…