Aliens Probably Have Consciousness

And if aliens made of different stuff potentially possess consciousness, then why not minds made of silicon, metal, and ...
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Scientists propose radical new theory of consciousness - it doesn't depend on flesh and blood

Human consciousness is one of the strangest and most stubbornly elusive phenomena in nature. Now, researchers have proposed a ...
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Human consciousness implanted into robots? 'Alien: Earth' suggests we're heading there.

At the mid-point of Alien: Earth 's first episode, the show's protagonist — an android uploaded with the consciousness of a dying child — shakily asks, "If I'm not human, what am I?" By the episode’s ...

Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says

Does consciousness depend on flesh and blood? The answer is almost certainly no, according to Eric Schwitzgebel, a ...

Alien first contact: how the new rules differ from science fiction

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist ...
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‘Alien: Earth’ is a tense, dark meditation about what makes us human

It is not the least of this world’s wonders that it’s been nearly half a century since Ellen Ripley, in the person of Sigourney Weaver, sent the Alien, in the person of a person in an Alien suit, ...