A way to counter AI risks could be to create AI risks. The question is by who, a non-profit, a corporation, a nation or a treaty? It may take extremes in systems, across tasks, to find out depths of threats. In weaponry, what are all the possible ways that AI…

There is a recent case in Scientific American, Understanding Consciousness Goes Beyond Exploring Brain Chemistry, stating that, “the core difficulty is that consciousness defies observation. You can’t look inside someone’s brain and see their feelings and experiences. …

There is a recent story on Reuters, Biogen-Sage Therapeutics postpartum depression pill priced at $15,900, stating that, “Sage Therapeutics has priced the oral postpartum depression (PPD) pill, [Zurzuvae (zuranolone)] it developed with partner Biogen at $15,900 for a full 14-day course of treatment.” The problem of depression continues to confound…

The two most important candidates [directly at play] in auditory hallucinations [hearing voices, paracusias or paracusis hallucinations] are electrical and chemical impulses of nerve cells. Neurobiology research has identified — imaginations, thoughts, inner speech, reasoning, memory, emotions, feelings, actions, reactions and regulations, as processes of electrical and chemical impulses. There…

There is a new feature in Forbes, Testing A Time-Jumping, Multiverse-Killing, Consciousness-Spawning Theory Of Reality, explaining that, “each gravity-induced collapse causes a little blip of proto-consciousness: micro-events that get organized by biological structures called microtubules inside our brains into full-bodied awareness. Orch OR theory attributes consciousness to quantum computations orchestrated…

There is a new book, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will, whose author, in an interview, said, “For that sort of free will to exist, it would have to function on a biological level completely independently of the history of that organism. You would be able to identify…

There is a new feature in MIT Technology Review, Minds of machines: The great AI consciousness conundrum, where, in reference to chocolate and consciousness, it was expressed that, “Placing a piece in your mouth sparks a symphony of neurobiological events — your tongue’s sugar and fat receptors activate brain-bound pathways…

There is a recent paper in JNeurosci, Stimulus-specific prediction error neurons in mouse auditory cortex, where the authors stated that ‘Our data reveal that the auditory cortex learns to suppress responses to self-generated sounds along multiple acoustic dimensions simultaneously. We identify a distinct population of auditory cortex neurons that are…

There is a new piece in Nautilus, The Worth of Wild Ideas, stating that, “In IIT, the amount of consciousness a system has is tracked by a mathematical quantity called Phi, and, according to the theory, wherever there is non-zero Phi, there will be consciousness, at least to some degree…