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 ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness could arise in many different forms of life, even in beings built from ...

Does consciousness depend on flesh and blood? The answer is almost certainly no, according to Eric Schwitzgebel, a distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. In ...

In a packed ballroom in Los Angeles, astrologer Shima Moore announces that something has just happened in the stars for the first time in at least 6,400 years. Minutes earlier, Saturn and Neptune met ...

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 ...