As AI rapidly advances and ethical debates intensify, scientists contend that understanding consciousness has become more urgent than ever. As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance ...
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The nation in the bardo

In Tibetan Buddhism, bardo refers to the in-between state after death and before rebirth. It is a time when consciousness is ...
Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the ...
The World as a Labyrinth” presents the artist’s ceramic cosmologies, enigmatic bronze narrative and visionary cosmic paintings.
As AI and brain technologies develop at a breathtaking speed, scientists are warning that one of the oldest and most ...
Grace Chan, author of Every Version of You, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, explores the philosophical ...
Creativity, the creative discovering of the genius of man ….ought to be restored its sacred significance. –Nicolai Berdyaev,  Salvation and ...
Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex—the brain’s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate ...
We must unlearn fear, individualism, and the inability to act in order to confront the threats of this moment.
Jordan believed poetry had the power to teach and educate, and she did not shy away from difficult word choices to appease ...
Danny Rensch is at the vanguard of chess. But to get to where he is now – a self-described “shepherd” for chess in his role as chief chess officer at Chess.com – Rensch has been on quite the life path ...
As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent ...