When you interact with a large language model (LLM) – one of the systems behind chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude – it can ...

Conscious businesses — or as I say, "businesses with soul" — are gaining steam among company leaders and employees who wish to make a difference in the world. They want to connect with their sense of ...

The question "can computers think" is something many people are taking very seriously. A philosophy professor believes we could be heading towards a future with conscious machines, while a ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 21: Deepak Chopra attends the 9th Annual Peace Week Town Hall on January 21, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Gary Gershoff/Getty Images) Right now, we could all do with ...

What the debate over AI consciousness is really about.

The ‘doorway effect’ suggests that when information is removed from working memory, it immediately seems to leave ...

ChatGPT and other new chatbots are so good at mimicking human interaction that they’ve prompted a question among some: Is there any chance they’re conscious? Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

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 ...

I want to explore the notion that one can be awake without being conscious. Normally, most of us think that to be awake is also to be conscious. That is a natural thought. We wake up in the morning ...

Anthropic is regarded as a giant among AI companies, but perhaps what it really excels in is anthropomorphism. Earlier this year, the company released an 84-page document titled Claude’s “constitution ...

Unless we’re doing an exercise that is built around slow breathing and deep focus such as yoga or Pilates, the practice of mindfulness probably isn’t at the top of our list when we hit the gym. But it ...