Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. I would think so. Our general understanding of what it means ...

Consciousness is a subjective, personal thing, so scientists who study it usually rely on people to tell them what they are conscious of. The problem is that infants are presumably conscious but, ...

The progress of science in the last 400 years is mind-blowing. Who would have thought we’d be able to trace the history of our universe to its origins 14 billion years ago? Science has increased the ...

Why did the experience of consciousness evolve from our underlying brain physiology? Despite being a vibrant area of neuroscience, current research on consciousness is characterised by disagreement ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. In a recently published article, I reviewed over 100 years of neuroscience research to see if some brain regions are more important ...

Metaphors invite ways of thinking. If philosophical disagreements are battles, only one side can win. If memory is a storehouse, recollection requires search and retrieval (but maybe not if memory is ...

Purposes of pleasure and pain? Our conscious experience makes up our lives, often through positive pleasure: I feel the warm sun on my skin, I hear the singing of birds, I enjoy the moment. Yet we ...

A recent attempt to catalog all theories of consciousness identified 350 distinct approaches (Kuhn, 2024). A recent contest for the best essay in consciousness studies produced 3,000 diverse ...

They build tools, recognize themselves in mirrors, and even seem to understand what others are thinking. Corvids have fascinated scientists for years. But do crows, jays, or magpies really have ...