OpinionNovember 8, 2024
Consciousness Might Hide in Our Brain’s Electric Fields
A mysterious electromagnetic mechanism may be more important than the firing of neurons in our brain to explain our awareness
Stories by Tamlyn Hunt
Tamlyn Hunt is a scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he focuses on philosophy and neuroscience. He is the author of numerous neuroscience and philosophy papers looking at the nature of consciousness and the role of electromagnetic effects in consciousness.
OpinionJune 17, 2024
Has AI Already Brought Us the Terminator Future?
Is baby Skynet already here? We need robust laws now to withstand eliminating humans from nuclear decision-making
OpinionJanuary 9, 2024
AI Safety Research Only Enables the Dangers of Runaway Superintelligence
AI will become inscrutable and uncontrollable. We need to stop AI development until we have a necessary safety conversation
OpinionMay 25, 2023
Here’s Why AI May Be Extremely Dangerous—Whether It’s Conscious or Not
Artificial intelligence algorithms will soon reach a point of rapid self-improvement that threatens our ability to control them and poses great potential risk to humanity
OpinionFebruary 16, 2020
How to Make the Study of Consciousness Scientifically Tractable
We need to reexamine the idea of “objectivity” in research
OpinionAugust 30, 2019
Where’s My Consciousness-ometer?
Whether an entity is conscious may soon be a testable question
CognitionDecember 5, 2018
The Hippies Were Right: It's All about Vibrations, Man!
A new theory of consciousness