human consciousness

A new essay argues that human expertise, in basketball and beyond, works less through deliberate narrative reasoning and more through rapid pattern recognition built from experience. The piece is drawing attention among readers debating how intuition and trained perception compare to conscious analysis in decision-making.

A new essay explores what Hindu philosophy can contribute to debates on artificial intelligence, focusing on ethics, consciousness, accountability, and how humans and machines can coexist sustainably. It argues ancient ideas about mind and duty can inform modern AI governance. The piece is drawing modest attention as interest grows in non-Western perspectives on AI ethics.

A philosopher argues that artificial intelligence is a 'third other' — present and absent at once, made by humans yet reshaping them. The argument holds that functionalism and inner-experience theory both reduce consciousness to what a scale can measure, whereas a ghost is ghostly precisely because no scale captures it. The author expands the idea in a forthcoming book on generative theory.

A debate piece from the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence asks whether Christianity would be the best religion in an AI-simulated world. The article explores how Christian theology might apply if human-like AI agents inhabited a simulated environment, touching on questions of consciousness, morality and what religion would mean for artificial minds.

Scientists and science communicators are highlighting saccadic masking, the process by which the visual cortex briefly suppresses perception during rapid eye movements, preventing the physical jolt of each eye movement from causing motion sickness. The observation is being used to argue that human consciousness never experiences a raw stream of physical reality, but instead a predictive rendering generated by the brain.

New coverage highlights a persistent gap in how people judge artificial intelligence: even when AI behaves exactly like a human, most people still do not consider it conscious. The report examines why outward behaviour alone is not enough to convince observers that a machine has inner experience, keeping consciousness a contested question as AI systems grow more humanlike.

A French-language philosophical reflection on humanity's destiny is circulating online, describing human beings as divided between two realities: conscious of their unique place above nature, yet destined to die and return to the earth. The text dwells on this tension between human grandeur and mortality, inviting readers to ponder the meaning of existence within the vastness of the Universe.