Unorthodox biologist Michael Levin says cognition lies on a spectrum and that what humans perceive as consciousness could ...

The 17th-century French philosopher René Descartes famously said, “I think, therefore I am.” What Descartes meant by that was ...

Some experts think “xenobot” cells that reorganize themselves after death signify a form of consciousness—while others vehemently disagree.

This applies regardless of the cost to human beings. If humanity must suffer ... animals would have rights - those animals that are conscious, can remember, and can form intentions and plan ...

Human beings must not do those things, no matter what the cost to humanity of not doing them. Human beings must not do those things, even if they do them in a humane way. For example: if animals ...

Artificial intelligence will never become a conscious being due to a lack of intention, which is endemic to human beings and other biological creatures, according to Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of ...

A baffling new theory to explain human consciousness has suggested it ... The more information is connected and integrated, ...

He writes: Speciesism, "discrimination against or exploitation of certain animal species by human beings, based on an ... animals are mental and most are conscious (see here for a recent ...

Given that AIs could be replicated, a large number of conscious beings could be created for ... told Metro we have to be wary of projecting human traits onto AI. ‘We think about what humans ...