A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about where you live than about what consciousness really requires. In a new working ...

A new philosophical paper argues that consciousness may not be exclusive to life as we know it. According to Eric ...

A mysterious cigar-shaped object spotted tumbling through our solar system last year may have been an alien spacecraft sent to investigate Earth, astronomers from Harvard University have suggested. A ...

A team of researchers has presented the wild theory that an interstellar object might be hostile "alien technology" that could reach Earth in fall 2025. According to Live Science, the paper is ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Philosophers argue consciousness may arise in alien bodies or future machines, not just Earth's flesh-and-blood biology. (CREDIT: ...