Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis to 2031" has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global back massager market is expected to grow with a CAGR of 7.8% from 2025 to 2031. The ...

The 37-year-old was at Freedom Beach in Phuket when an unexpectedly powerful wave struck and a rip current dragged him underwater ...

Studies have long warned that concussions raise the risk of suffering neurodegenerative conditions - but now experts say this ...

If the theory is correct, 'mysterious' phenomena such as telepathy, near-death experiences, and even life after death could finally be explained by science.

Consciousness is fundamental; only thereafter do time, space and matter arise. This is the starting point for a new theoretical model of the nature of reality, presented by Maria Strømme, Professor of ...

What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum published two articles on this topic. Although ...

Re “What Is It Like to Be a Computer?,” by Barbara Gail Montero (Opinion guest essay, Nov. 10): Dr. Montero’s essay argues that artificial intelligence may one day become conscious. But I wonder if ...

Large language models like ChatGPT are designed to be eerily human-like. The more you engage with these AIs, the easier it is to convince yourself that they’re conscious, just like you. But are you ...

Head of Microsoft’s AI division Mustafa Suleyman thinks that AI developers and researchers should stop trying to build conscious AI. “I don’t think that is work that people should be doing,” Suleyman ...

As a journalist who covers AI, I hear from countless people who seem utterly convinced that ChatGPT, Claude, or some other chatbot has achieved “sentience.” Or “consciousness.” Or—my personal favorite ...

Consciousness is the ultimate question of existence. Nothing is more essential than our experience. Yet we have no consensus, and perhaps no clue, about what it actually is. The trouble, in part, is ...