Research reveals why AI systems can't become conscious—and what radically different computing substrates would be needed to ...

Two major theories have fueled a now 1,500 year-long debate started by Saint Augustine: Is consciousness continuous, where we are conscious at each single point in time, or is it discrete, where we ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational ...

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If you try and divide matter into smaller and smaller chunks, you'll eventually arrive at the particles we know of as fundamental: the ones that cannot be decomposed any further. The particles of the ...