Could alien minds be conscious? A new paper says yes

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about ...

Aliens Probably Have Consciousness

And if aliens made of different stuff potentially possess consciousness, then why not minds made of silicon, metal, and ...
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The universe may be hiding conscious minds stranger than we can imagine

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...
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Scientists propose radical new theory of consciousness - it doesn't depend on flesh and blood

Human consciousness is one of the strangest and most stubbornly elusive phenomena in nature. Now, researchers have proposed a ...
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Human consciousness implanted into robots? 'Alien: Earth' suggests we're heading there.

At the mid-point of Alien: Earth 's first episode, the show's protagonist — an android uploaded with the consciousness of a dying child — shakily asks, "If I'm not human, what am I?" By the episode’s ...
Inverse

What The Strange Habits Of An Octopus Can Teach Us About Alien Intelligence

We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked.
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‘Alien: Earth’ is a tense, dark meditation about what makes us human

It is not the least of this world’s wonders that it’s been nearly half a century since Ellen Ripley, in the person of Sigourney Weaver, sent the Alien, in the person of a person in an Alien suit, ...