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Micah Schippa
All Consciousness Is Non-human

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From the comfortable seat of our bodies (and built-in brains), it's easy to think that consciousness is a unique property of humans. But some philosophers argue that the entire universe is conscious, or to put it more broadly: that there is only cosmic consciousness.

New Theory Says We Are All Multiple...

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The inner life of plants arouses the passions of even the mildest-mannered naturalists. A debate over plant consciousness and intelligence has raged in scientific circles for well over a century-at least since Charles Darwin observed in 1880 that stressed-out flora can't rest. There's no doubt that plants are extremely complex.

A debate over plant consciousness is...

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About two weeks ago, the New York Times ran a story on a scientific paper about how anesthetics stopped motion in plants with a provocative headline for readers and scientists: "Sedate a Plant, and It Seems to Lose Consciousness. Is It Conscious?"

Plants are not conscious, whether you...

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A long-standing question within the robotics community is about the degree of human-likeness robots ought to have when interacting with humans. We explore an unexamined aspect of this problem: how people empathize with robots along the anthropomorphic spectrum. We conducted a web-based experiment (n = 120) that measured how people empathized with four different robots shown to be experiencing mistreatment by humans.

Empathizing with robots: Fellow feeling...

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News releases | Research | Social science Too busy to vacuum your living room? Let Roomba the robot do it. Don't want to risk a soldier's life to disable an explosive? Let a robot do it. It's becoming more common to have robots sub in for humans to do dirty or sometimes dangerous work.

Emotional attachment to robots could...

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