Most liberals understand that drug addicts are not intrinsically bad people. But they don't believe the same for racists.

Prominent scientists are propagating new versions of the old idea that reality revolves around us.

She sings in multimedia pop acts, and she rocks a different prosthesis depending on the performance.

Genetic traits ranging from height to lactose tolerance and menopause onset have changed in the blink of an evolutionary eye.

A treat for lovers of bizarre thought experiments, Rick Grush’s paper Some puzzles concerning relations between minds, brains, and bodies asks where the mind is, in a sequence of increasingly weird scenarios. Perhaps the simplest way into the subject is to list these scenarios, so here we go.

Public health officials already know how they'd try to stop a zombie outbreak.

“Cyberpunk creeps up on us. Some kind of alchemy transforms its fictions into truths, and draws us towards places we thought unreal.” 

One vintage ad warns women, "Don't let them call you SKINNY!" while another promises that smoking cigarettes will keep one slender. If th

While machine learning is introducing innovation and change to many sectors, it also is bringing trouble and worries to others. One of the most worrying..

A group of people are queuing for something. One of them is out of line. 

The answer – fewer than are in a banana – has implications for the study of human health and raises questions about what generates complexity anyway.

Social problems of AI are raised in two government reports issued recently. The first is Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence, from the Executive Office of the President of the USA; the second is Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, from the Science and Technology Committee of the UK House of Commons.

It’s no coincidence that Alan Turing, one of the most influential computer scientists of all time, started his 1950 treatise on computing with the question “Can machines think?” From our science fiction to our research labs, we have long questioned whether the creation of artificial versions of ourselves will somehow help us uncover the origin of our own consciousness…

It looks like scientists and philosophers might have made consciousness far more mysterious than it needs to be.

Watch more videos on iai.tv A debate from IAI about male and female minds. It is pretty much agreed between the speakers that men's brains and women's brains are not really different; the claime

Scientists have long known that there’s much more to our experience than the five senses (or ‘outward wits’) described by Aristotle – hearing, sight, smell, touch and taste. Yet the myth of five senses persists, perhaps because a clearer understanding of our sensory experience at the neurological level has only recently started to take shape. 

The field of “scientific theology” ponders the ultimate purpose of mind.

Scientists have been experimenting with brain-to-brain communication for some time; recent results, which have been remarkable, represent the culmination of a decade or so of research. In the past few years, brain-machine interfaces have been used on monkeys, rodents, and people, and in at least one case, on a human-rat dyad.

Why infinite libraries are treated skeptically in the annals of science fiction and fantasy

There are things we can do to create more opportunities for eureka moments, leading to more creativity, innovation, and insight at work.

The line between "cheap" and "frugal" is a thin one.

Can machines learn to scare us?

Your mind is constantly working against you.

This 20-minute explainer video lays down three rules for becoming a dictator: 1. Get the key supporters on your side. 2. Control the treasure. 3. Minimize key supporters. The video is based on a book called, The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

Hollywood’s dark vision of machines taking over belies how far AI is from meaningful reality—and what it will look like when it gets there