Consciousness is what we are most familiar with. Feeling the sun's warmth on our face, the joy of seeing someone we love, or the thrill of being on a rollercoaster—every single experience we ever had, ...

Ever since we published our very first issue 123 years ago—yes, we’re old—Popular Mechanics has endeavored to help you understand all kinds of technological marvels, from the tools in your shed, to ...

Consciousness has long resisted neat explanations, but a growing body of research suggests the problem may lie in how we ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. Last year, scientists inferentially detected the existence of ...

Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

It is a new year with new possibilities and new aspirations. It is also time for us as educators to reset, prioritize and set ...

Dr. Tom McClelland argues that there is no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious, and that this uncertainty may never ...

In intensive care units, some patients who appear unconscious occupy a gray zone in their relationship to the world. To ...