Scientists suggest that advanced aliens might not have physical bodies, challenging traditional views of extraterrestrial ...
A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about ...
Octopuses, bees, and dogs all process information differently. Even within the narrow confines of one planet, evolution produced a wide range of nervous systems rather than a single design. A new ...
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 ...
In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...
"The universe may contain minds stranger than we can imagine." The post There May Be Bizarre Forms of Consciousness Drifting ...
Introduction: Do Sci-Fi Aliens Really Have a 'Mind'? In the hit sci-fi movie and novel 'Project Hail Mary,' there appears 'Rocky,' a five-fingered alien covered in a rock-like outer shell, with ...
The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...
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Steven Spielberg’s Aliens

Disclosure Day has plenty of UFOs and extraterrestrial species but very little of the human insights found in the filmmaker’s ...