Of all the odd notions to emerge from debates over consciousness, the oddest is that it doesn’t exist, at least not in the way we think it does. It is an illusion, like “Santa Claus” or “American ...

It suggests your subjective experience might come from both your physical brain and the mysterious quantum activity within it.

Large Language Models have emerged as both curious and transformative forces in the science of artificial intelligence, prompting a reevaluation of fundamental questions concerning the nature of ...

A new study from TU Wien shows that LLMs do not idle into nonsense when left without tasks. Instead, they fall into clear ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. “This retroactive idea. It has to be that,” says Nobel ...

One of the most important paradoxes in physics is Schrödinger's Cat. At the microscopic level, light and particles behave according to quantum mechanics. This allows them to be in two places at once ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: A biotech startup is developing next-generation psychedelics designed to evoke specific, curated states of mind. Psychedelics provide a way to safely and ...