consciousness
Anthropic Says Chatbots Have What May Be a Key Feature of Consciousness. Are They Right?
Posted in Hardware, Science, Software on 18th Jul, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Claude appears to have a normally invisible set of internal representations that guide its reasoning and output, which the company argues echoes an influential idea known as global workspace theory.
Why What You See Is Only a Tiny Fraction of Reality
Posted in Science on 3rd Apr, 2026
by Alexander Muller
This perspective reshapes how we understand perception, decision making, and even identity. What we think of as “what we see” is not reality itself, but a filtered output. Conscious awareness is not the full picture, it is just the part that gets broadcast.
Are Animals and AI Conscious? Scientists Devise New Theories for How to Test This
Posted in Science on 4th Dec, 2025
by Alexander Muller
As scientists study both animals and artificial intelligences, they’re asking a provocative question: perhaps consciousness isn’t about what something behaves like, but about how its “inner machinery” works, whether it processes information in ways that could support subjective experience.
"Hidden consciousness" may be present in 25% of unresponsive patients
Posted in Science on 27th Aug, 2024
by Alex Muller
A new study suggests that up to 25% of unresponsive patients with severe brain injuries may have "hidden consciousness," showing signs of awareness despite appearing unresponsive.
Can Consciousness Be Explained by Quantum Physics?
Posted in Science on 3rd Aug, 2021
by Alex Muller
New knowledge of quantum fractals could provide the foundations for scientists to experimentally test the theory of quantum consciousness. If quantum measurements are one day taken from the human brain, this could help researchers decide whether consciousness is a classical or a quantum phenomenon.