Maybe the real monster in the Alien franchise isn’t actually the killer alien. Because behind the acid blood and jump scares is an even more insidious horror: a single employer with unchecked power.

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about ...

Amid the assortment of limited-edition collectible popcorn buckets, there have been some questionable contributions.

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

Does consciousness depend on flesh and blood? The answer is almost certainly no, according to Eric Schwitzgebel, a distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. In ...

SUMMER is well and truly here, and with that all-inclusive break booked, it’s time to dig out the swimwear. But if you are ...

For a long time, aliens in movies had something reassuringly familiar about them. Even when they arrived from distant galaxies, they tended to stand upright, speak (or at least gesture) like us, and ...

Does consciousness require flesh and blood to exist?Probably not, according to Eric Schwitzgebel, a distinguished professor of philosophy at the ...

In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...