Now, Cortical Labs has successfully developed a brain-on-a-chip computer primarily designed to aid scientists and researchers ...

Seth, for example, is on the steering committee of another adversarial collaboration between IIT and two other theories of consciousness. This type of research “will encourage a new way of doing ...

A large-scale scientific collaboration has compared two major theories about consciousness. The study, published in Nature, involved researchers from around the world for seven years. The theories ...

When it comes to consciousness, theories are like toothbrushes. Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody else’s.

Nevertheless, global neuronal workspace theory and integrated information theory are two of the "big four" theories that dominate current discussions of consciousness. (The others are higher-order ...

Their plan was to bring together two rival groups to design ... version of this article misstated the types of items that were shown to volunteers in a consciousness experiment.

Two different approaches When considering ... to make it more likely that they are capable of consciousness? Another approach asks: What types of AI systems are unlikely to be conscious, and ...

During their rat brain experiments, scientists at Wellesley College in Massachusetts gave the rodents isoflurane, a type of inhaled ... gives rise to our consciousness. TWO EARLIER LANDMARK ...