Christof Koch
Can AI chatbots ‘feel’?
Generative AI has made giant strides toward machine intelligence. Can machine consciousness be far behind? ...
Exploring the mystery of consciousness: Is it everywhere in nature?
Accounting for the nature of consciousness appears elusive, with many claiming that it cannot be defined at all, yet defining ...
Explaining near-death experiences and why they aren’t always ‘blissful’
Near-death experiences, or NDEs, are triggered during singular life-threatening episodes when the body is injured by blunt trauma, a heart ...
Can death be reversed? Scientists partially revive brains of dead pigs
Despite technological advances, biology and medicine still lack a coherent and principled understanding of what precisely defines birth and death—the ...