A finger-length fish has reignited a long-running debate about self-awareness, cognition and how much we’ve underestimated ...

Awareness, especially self-awareness, is very difficult to study.  Self-awareness evolved among our animal ancestors and is ...

A robot passed a classic test that determines if it can exhibit consciousness or self-awareness. In a logic puzzle called "The King's Wise Men," a king must choose one of three people to be his new ...

The ability to look into a mirror and recognize oneself is a cognitive skill we all take for granted, but very few animals outside of humans are able to do it. New research shows that monkeys can be ...

Could this be the beginning of the end for human dominance over machines? In a recent logic test conducted by researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute AI and Reasoning Lab, one robot ...