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: ...

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 ...

There is an arrogance to assuming that if conscious, sentient beings exist somewhere else in the universe, they’d probably look a lot like us. According to a new paper by philosophers Eric ...

Advanced aliens, if they exist, may have no physical bodies at all and could be built from materials nothing like human flesh, according to a new theory put forward by scientists in California and ...