An old friend of mine was buried last week. I haven’t seen him for a few years and did not call to say goodbye. I had heard he was sick but didn’t think he was going to die; pneumonia doesn’t ...

Russell, a "scientist at heart," seems somewhat oversold as a physicist, although his undergraduate work at Cambridge brought him into Steven Hawking's office on occasion. But his curiosity about the ...

I am constantly thinking about the state of the world, about international relations, about geopolitics, about ...

Unraveling how consciousness arises out of particular configurations of organic matter is a quest that has absorbed scientists and philosophers for ages. Now, with AI systems behaving in strikingly ...

At just 17, Holden’s life ended on a rainy night, but what began next changed him forever. After dying in a car crash, he ...

A new theory of consciousness provides experimental access to the study of this phenomenon. Not just in humans. Two researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have come up with a new theory of ...