Has artificial intelligence (AI) progressed to the point where it has already achieved consciousness? Our panel of technologists do not believe AI is very close to achieving consciousness, but that it ...

After analyzing many previous studies on lucid dreaming, researchers have defined it as a state that differs significantly ...

As AI evolves toward possible consciousness, how we engage with it today could shape the nature of a future shared with a new ...

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in ...

The problem was first posed by Aristotle, over 2000 years ago. KUOW editor and longtime science journalist Gabriel Spitzer tells us more about that research and the Seattle scientist at the center of ...

Bicameral Mentality: Some theories, like Julian Jaynes's theory of bicameral mentality, suggest that early humans might not have had the same level of self-awareness we experience today. They propose ...

Adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir about surviving childhood sexual abuse and finding an outlet for her pain in writing, the drama also features Thora Birch, Jim Belushi and Earl Cave.

While I can’t point to one specific “aha” moment where I finally started to dispel my self-consciousness and claim my pride ...