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Educational robots, intelligent implants, brain chips: scientists and legal experts will meet this week to debate how to deal with the rapid march of artificial intelligence
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Jon Butterworth: I never expected a talk by a philosopher to be the most memorable TEDxCERN talk for me. But John Searle made it so
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The musical 'genomes' generate melodies that have a superficial coherence, with all the dryness and greyness that suggests, writes Tom Service
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he first music composed by computer considered good enough for top-class musicians to play is to be performed to mark the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth
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In the second half of a debate on the nature of consciousness at the Royal Institution in London, Susan Greenfield addresses how the brain generates this most mysterious of biological phenomena
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Is it time the father of the modern computer was honoured on the £10 note?
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Ahead of a debate on the nature of consciousness at the Royal Institution on Wednesday 7 March, Alok Jha interviewed the protagonists
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Mo Costandi: Adrian Owen's pioneering research shows that some vegetative patients are conscious and responsive
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Mark Vernon: Face to faith: When we meditate or use our powers of perception, we call on more than just a brain
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Book tracing the evolutionary origins of life, sex, consciousness and death wins prestigious Royal Society prize
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Alok Jha introduces a lecture by Christof Koch of the California Institute of Technology on how the brain creates the sensation of consciousness
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Neuroscientist Christof Koch of the California Institute of Technology discusses how the brain generates consciousness, the differences between cognitive states, and how information theory could affect the iPhone
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Cif belief Reframing the New Atheism debate
Ed HalliwellEd Halliwell: The centrality of consciousness should be acknowledged, rather than seeing the debate as purely scientific or religious
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Response: Our consciousness paves the way for our spirituality, but there's little consensus, says Nicholas Humphrey
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Cif belief Science explains, not describes
Sue BlackmoreSue Blackmore: Can science explain everything?The experience of consciousness seems incommunicable and ineffable. Yet science can hope to explain how it arises
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The co-director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science tells Alok Jha of his hopes to unravel the mystery of where 'we' exist in the brain
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Sex, death and consciousness are among author Nick Lane's top 10 evolutionary breakthroughs. Plus: Islamic science; the elixir of life; and dangerous sofas
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This perceptive look at the development of consciousness concludes that babies know more than we think, says Sally Vickers
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The silicon brain would provide insights into how our perceptions of the world are interpreted and stored, and how consciousness arises
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Cif belief An existential headache
Bill WhitsonBill Whitson: Could science abolish personalities along with God?: Blakemore's arguments take us on an intellectual merry-go-round, without answering any of the fundamental metaphysical questions
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Back from the grave
Sue BlackmoreSue Blackmore: Research on near-death experiences is unlikely to find evidence that human consciousness can survive without a brain
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A Wellcome debate
Anil BhanotAnil Bhanot: Embryo bill: An embryonic cell has little or no consciousness, so killing it may be no harsher than killing a plant for food
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How some of the world's most eminent scientists and thinkers think about the human mind
Notes and queries When does a computer become a brain?