The human brain—along with every other brain for that matter—evolved with gravity as an anchor. What happens when you remove ...

Anthropic found an intriguing inner working element of modern LLMs. Does this give light to the advent of AI consciousness.

Glancing at the world in 2026, I wouldn’t exactly say that humanity is raising consciousness. Except in one sense: Some ...

Anthropic’s new Claude research reveals a hidden internal “global workspace” that resembles human conscious processing, ...

The emergence of an unplanned ‘mental workspace’ inside Claude offers a chilling look at AI intent, while serving as a ...

Ever since we published our very first issue 123 years ago—yes, we’re old—Popular Mechanics has endeavored to help you understand all kinds of technological marvels, from the tools in your shed, to ...

Consciousness is usually defined by neuroscientists as the ability to have subjective experience, such as the experience of tasting an apple or of seeing the redness of its skin. The leading theories ...

The ‘doorway effect’ suggests that when information is removed from working memory, it immediately seems to leave ...

The origins of consciousness have been debated by philosophers for centuries. Each conscious person has a sense of "being me," which invariably gives rise to the question of where that sense ...

These are good times to be a thinking, conscious creature, despite events in the world that might make us doubt that. These are even better times to be a creature who thinks about consciousness: the ...

Human consciousness is one of the strangest and most mysterious phenomena in the universe, but one scientist says it could be ...