In a recent editorial published in Science, Microsoft's chief scientific officer, Eric Horvitz, and researcher Robert West ...

Hans-Georg Gadamer offers us a unique way of conceiving of human understanding as a social, linguistic, back-and-forth ...

For centuries, people have wondered what separates being awake from being asleep, dreaming, or unconscious. Scientists have searched for clues throughout the brain, hoping to identify the signals ...

Since Copernicus, nothing has done more to upend our understanding of the world than Kant’s idea that the human mind actively ...

While it might feel as though artificial intelligence is getting dangerously smart, there are still some basic concepts that AI doesn’t comprehend as well as humans do. Back in March, we reported that ...

The first time a computer beat a human chess champion, doomsayers proclaimed it was the beginning of the end. That was nearly three decades ago, and contrary to those dire predictions, humans haven't ...

More than 8 major philosophical perspectives, from Homo sapiens to Homo viator, have attempted to explain human nature, human ...

Human-machine understanding (HMU) represents the next frontier in human-centric technology. By integrating insights from human behavioural data, cognitive science and psychology with artificial ...

TUSCON, Ariz. — A dog’s ability to understand people may be present shortly after birth rather than learned, according to a new study by University of Arizona researchers that was published in the ...