In the era of large language models and talks of artificial general intelligence, scientists are understandably reinvigorated to understand the inner workings of human consciousness— and there are a ...

Human consciousness requires arousal (i.e., wakefulness) and awareness Brain imaging studies over the last decade have produced connectivity maps of the cortical networks that sustain awareness, but ...

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. AI researcher working with the UN and others to drive social change. Feb 07, 2025, 03:28pm EST Humans have been on an elusive ...

Gildert tells Seth there are plenty of different ideas out there about what consciousness actually means, but she's settled on a two-part definition focused on practical outcomes. The first part of ...

In the ongoing discussions about artificial intelligence, one of the most provocative questions has been whether large language models might one day achieve consciousness. However, perhaps the more ...

Despite their elegant descriptions of animal behavior, I am not sanguine about the effort of some scholars to extend consciousness to lower animals like insects. One example of such efforts is found ...

A new study involved high-resolution scans that enabled the researchers to visualize brain connections at submillimeter spatial resolution. Together, these pathways form a 'default ascending arousal ...