Summary: 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 ...

Consciousness is what we are most familiar with. Feeling the sun's warmth on our face, the joy of seeing someone we love, or the thrill of being on a rollercoaster—every single experience we ever had, ...

Researchers are edging closer to experiments that claim to supply artificial intelligence with a missing ingredient for ...

“Consciousness should not be deemed as an ‘all-or-nothing’ cognitive function but rather as a graded and multi-dimensional ...

What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers ...

Human consciousness once looked like an evolutionary extravagance, a mysterious inner movie with no clear purpose. Now a wave ...

A radical new theory from Professor Maria Strømme suggests that consciousness may not originate in the brain but instead ...

Although scientific research about consciousness has enjoyed a boom in the past two decades, one central question remains ...

Researchers are trying to build tiny synthetic emotions into AI that they hope will be the scaffolding of machine ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. Last year, scientists inferentially detected the existence of ...