Collaborate Disseminate
Sanctuary AI is one of the world’s leading humanoid robotics companies. Its Phoenix robot, now in its seventh generation, has dropped our jaws several times in the last few months alone, demonstrating a remarkable pace of learning and a fluidity and co… Continue reading Interview: Suzanne Gildert leaves Sanctuary to focus on AI consciousness
Among brain researchers there’s a truism that says the reason people underestimate how much unconscious processing goes on in your brain is because you’re not conscious of it. And while …read more Continue reading The Real Science (Not Armchair Science) Of Consciousness
In 2004, Francis Crick, one of the 20th century’s greatest scientific minds, died of colon cancer. Crick was best known for describing the structure of DNA in the 1950s with collaborator James Watson, but over the last couple of decades of his life his… Continue reading The effects of psychedelics on the brain’s “consciousness conductor”
Impressive new research, led by scientists from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, has uncovered a new neurochemical mechanism by which psilocybin generates its hallucinogenic effects. The research also revealed a direct relationship between a p… Continue reading Breakthrough psilocybin study uncovers neurochemical origins of human ego
Since the turn of the millennium the so-called “psychedelic renaissance” has slowly been growing, with a number of dedicated researchers tirelessly working to legitimize a field of science profoundly stigmatized by decades of social and political disap… Continue reading Largest ever DMT survey travels to the fringes of psychedelic science
Assessing the severity of brain injuries in people showing little or no signs of awareness can be a tall order for physicians. A study out of the University of Cambridge has uncovered a possible new tool that could offer a clearer picture and improved … Continue reading “Sniff test” for consciousness may aid in treatment of brain injuries
There’s an incredible amount we don’t understand about the workings of the human body and brain, and consciousness itself remains one of the great mysteries of science. Which is weird, because in some senses it’s about the only thing we can be sure exi… Continue reading Researchers find a “consciousness switch” deep in the brain
Anil Seth, a neuroscientist and director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex, researches the biological basis of the otherwise ethereal topic of consciousness. Continue reading Reality Is Just a Bunch of Hallucinations We Collectively Agree On
Axel Cleeremans, a psychologist and researcher, has spent the last 30 years trying to figure it out. Continue reading Scientists Still Don’t Totally Understand What It Means to Be Conscious
The concept of artificial intelligence dates back far before the advent of modern computers — even as far back as Greek mythology. Hephaestus, the Greek god of craftsmen and blacksmiths, was believed to have created automatons to work for him. Another mythological figure, Pygmalion, carved a statue of a beautiful woman from ivory, who he proceeded to fall in love with. Aphrodite then imbued the statue with life as a gift to Pygmalion, who then married the now living woman.
Throughout history, myths and legends of artificial beings that were given intelligence were common. These varied from having simple supernatural …read more
