Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Philosophers argue consciousness may arise in alien bodies or future machines, not just Earth's flesh-and-blood biology. (CREDIT: ...

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about where you live than about what consciousness really requires. In a new working ...

Consciousness may arise in systems far different than the biology on Earth we are used to, according to University of California, Riverside (UCR) researchers, who argue that many forms of conscious ...

There is an arrogance to assuming that if conscious, sentient beings exist somewhere else in the universe, they’d probably look a lot like us. According to a new paper by philosophers Eric ...

The Sanctuary of the Extinct NeanderthalsIn the early 2000s, at the dawn of late-night anime, the world we witnessed was a ...