Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

In rethinking whether AI is sentient, we are asking bigger questions about cognition, human-machine interaction and even our ...

The history of science — in particular the physical sciences, like physics and astronomy — can be told as the incremental realization that there is large-scale coherence in the universe. By ...

Across physics, biology and philosophy, a once-fringe idea is gaining new intellectual weight: the possibility that the cosmos behaves less like a dead machine and more like a living system. Instead ...

The idea that the cosmos might be alive is moving from late-night speculation into serious, if controversial, scientific ...

What is the fundamental nature of reality? What is the true essence of human consciousness? These questions will take center stage at the Nature of Reality Seminar, a major interdisciplinary gathering ...