I want to explore the notion that one can be awake without being conscious. Normally, most of us think that to be awake is also to be conscious. That is a natural thought. We wake up in the morning ...

Take a moment and consider how you define mind relative to consciousness. In reflecting on questions such as: Can something have a mind, but not be conscious? Can something be conscious, but not have ...

I have always been a fan of comics, or what I call the funny pages. Recently, I was looking at the "Family Circus," by Bil and Jeff Keane. The littlest boy has a cupboard open and is looking at ...

Early in 2025 dozens of ChatGPT 4.0 users reached out to me to ask if the model was conscious. The artificial intelligence chatbot system was claiming that it was “waking up” and having inner ...

Are you wound up? Worked up? Burned out? Are you tired of being tired? Do you have outrage fatigue from whatever political scandal is dominating today's headlines? Believe it or not, we weren't born ...