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Experts believe entangling a brain with a quantum computer could finally reveal where consciousness comes from.

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Slow, sleep-like brain waves persist in part of the brain that has been surgically disconnected from the rest of the organ even though the person is awake. The findings 1, published in PLoS Biology, ...

For Anna Mekunts, poetry is less a craft than a state of being. She writes as she feels — without prescribed forms or rules — ...

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Anthropic’s Claude models showed early signs of self-awareness, detecting “injected thoughts" and both thrilling and ...