A new theory of consciousness provides experimental access to the study of this phenomenon. Not just in humans. Two researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have come up with a new theory of ...

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 ...

A philosopher at the University of Cambridge says there’s no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious—and that may remain true for the foreseeable future. According to Dr. Tom McClelland, ...

Conscious aging is an offshoot of the 1987 model of successful aging, which was defined as an elderly person moving through the last chapter of life without disease and disability. Given that we’re ...