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Is consciousness everywhere? In every rock and atom? That is what panpsychists like the philosopher Philip Goff believe. They urge us to revolutionize or abandon physics itself to accommodate ...

John Searle, the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, talked at Google about the philosophy of the mind and the potential for consciousness in artificial ...

The brain in a jar is a different inquiry than traditional questions about artificial intelligence. The brain in a jar asks whether thinking requires a thinker. The possibility of artificial ...

Consciousness is one of the unsolved mysteries that great thinkers across many disciplines have attempted to elucidate. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines consciousness simply as “the quality or ...

Mashupye Herbert Maserumule received funding from the National Research Foundation for his doctoral work on Good Governance in the New Partnership For Africa's Development. He is affiliated to the ...