Research reveals why AI systems can't become conscious—and what radically different computing substrates would be needed to ...

Elon Musk and others find it plausible that our experiences result from events in a computer simulation, just like the characters in the Matrix movies. An alternative view, supported by both common ...

Can artificial intelligence become conscious? This question, once confined to science fiction, now occupies a central place ...

In classic blockbuster film 'The Matrix', humans are enslaved by AI because it wants our body heat to power its computers. While this sounds straight from the annuls of sci-fi, a physics professor ...

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Key points The brain is not just an abstract thought machine but interacts with our biological bodies on many levels. Substrate dependent biological functions happen not only for inputs and outputs ...