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Artificial intelligence (AI) is continuing to have a disruptive impact on ever more parts of humanity. But what does it mean in the long run? A new paper, available as a preprint on arXiv from ...

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In a new paper, researchers examine the possibility of other consciousnesses that take on forms far beyond our imagination.

Areeba Khan has been writing about anime and gaming for over four years, with bylines at ComicBook.com and Attack of the Fanboy. She first got into the niche when she ran a small anime Instagram page ...

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As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

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What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

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