The likelihood that today's most sophisticated artificial intelligence programs are sentient, or conscious, is less than 10 percent, but in a decade from now, the leading AI programs might have a 20 ...

Christof Koch wagered David Chalmers 25 years ago that researchers would learn how the brain achieves consciousness by now. But the quest continues. A 25-year science wager has come to an end. In 1998 ...

THE Australian-born philosopher David Chalmers has long made waves in the world of consciousness. In 1994, at the age of just 28, he coined the phrase “the hard problem of consciousness” to describe ...

David Chalmers is a philosopher of mind, best known for his argument about the difficulty of what he termed the “hard problem” of consciousness, which he typically discusses by way of a thought ...