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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The progress of science in the last 400 years is mind blowing. Who would have thought we'd be able to trace the history of our universe to its origins 14 billion years ago? Science has increased the length and the quality of our lives, and the technology that is commonplace in the modern world would have seemed like magic to our ancestors. …

Over the past 50 years, Chicago drummer Kahil El’Zabar has been at the forefront of the avant garde in jazz. He has collaborated with the trumpeters Don Cherry and Dizzy Gillespie and provided percussion for stars such as Stevie Wonder, but it is with his Ethnic Heritage Ensemble that El’Zabar has found himself most free. Across their 15 albums he has tapped into west African polyrhythms, meditative ambience and soaring spirituality, producing a signature swing that is loose and laid-back without allowing the groove to…

The beginning of a new series that explores seven stories and the thread that ties them together: artificial intelligence. In this prologue, Hannah (not her real name) has met Noah and he has changed her life for the better. So why does she have concerns about him? How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know…

What does it mean to be conscious? People have been thinking and writing about this question for millennia. Yet many things about the conscious mind remain a mystery, including how to measure and assess it. What is a unit of consciousness? Are there different levels of consciousness? What happens to consciousness during sleep, coma and general anesthesia?As anesthesiologists, we think about these questions often. We make a promise to patients every day that they will be disconnected from the outside world and their inner…

An international research study reveals that infants might possess conscious experiences from birth, integrating sensory and cognitive responses to understand their environment. This pioneering work, published in Trends in Cognitive Science, offers novel insights into infant consciousness and perception.An international research team from Trinity College Dublin, along with collaborators in Australia, Germany, and the USA, has discovered evidence suggesting the presence of some form of conscious experience from birth, and…

Today, December 22, the artificial intelligence (AI) space is asking us deep, philosophical questions, as new developments point towards its innovative use cases and its internal nature. A talkative robot called ElliQ, created by Intuition Robotics, is helping senior citizens in the US combat loneliness by offering them companionship. AI for companionship is a hotly explored space, and it is something even Elon Musk has talked about. In other news, a coalition of scientists is raising serious questions about the AI…

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When you look in the mirror, what do you see? In all likelihood, you see a complex shape that you immediately recognize as yourself. Now, a team of researchers has found that mice appear capable of doing the same thing.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI UnlockedThat’s right: Mice may now join the small cadre of mammals that pass the so-called mirror test, suggesting they can tell the difference between a reflection of themselves and a view of another mouse. Other mammals that have demonstrated ‘mirror-induced…

December 1, 20233min readThe quest to understand our physical universe may depend on investigating our own mindBy Amy Brady NONFICTIONPutting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe by George Musser Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023 ($30)For a time, in the late 1980s, it looked like the field of neural networks was dead. Its researchers, who were seeking answers about consciousness by creating interconnected webs of…

You’ll recognize Peter Jackson as the creative talent behind one of the most acclaimed movie trilogies in history, an immortal piece of art whose likeness is a miracle of craftsmanship lost to modern filmmakers. But before embarking on the quest to adapt The Lord of the Rings, the Kiwi cinema icon was partial to incredibly absurd, ridiculously crude, and ironically terrible films that would either have you in stitches or give you the biggest cringe panics of your life. We’re not even exaggerating here. Jackson started…