"Out of meat, how do you get thought? That's the grandest question." So said philosopher Patricia Churchland to Robert Lawrence Kuhn, the producer and host of the acclaimed PBS program, Closer to ...

This blog was co-authored with Professor John Vervaeke*. Robert Lawrence Kuhn, the executive producer of the excellent series on life, cosmos, and consciousness called Closer to Truth, recently ...

Could artificial intelligence (AI) become conscious? What used to be a philosophical “thought experiment” is now a real-world conundrum. AI’s explosive development, especially the Large Language ...

Anthropic says there is something lurking inside Claude that looks a lot like the ‘global workspace’ one influential theory ...

The study of consciousness stands at the absolute core of contemporary cognitive science. Throughout history, this phenomenon has been approached from ...

Robert Lawrence Khun’s article on the landscape of consciousness certainly engaged my brain, so I came down on the side of thinking that is where my consciousness lies, therefore making it a ...

Anthropic’s new Claude research reveals a hidden internal “global workspace” that resembles human conscious processing, ...

A recent groundbreaking experiment in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced some scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of ...

India, Aug. 3 -- In the ever-evolving landscape of consciousness studies, Encountering Kundalini: Revelations by a Neurologist stands out as a rare and invigorating exploration - one that refuses to ...

A taxonomy of consciousness explanations. Credit: Robert Lawrence Kuhn (2024). Created by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and Alex Gomez-Marin. A landscape of consciousness. Note: Categories 1–10 in the Figures ...