What is consciousness? Where does it reside? Does it belong to the mind or the body, or does it exist outside both? Is consciousness part of our souls, or does it live in the things we create – our art, our music, our cities and wars? And - most pressing of all - is so much of us now digitised that we've shifted our consciousness completely?
From the smash-and-grab acid of the '60s CIA to stoner elephants and singularitarians, Bella Bathurst searches for the answers and reaches some startling conclusions. As science and spirituality converge, what's the next leap: humans with the souls of computers, or conscious machines?
From the smash-and-grab acid of the '60s CIA to stoner elephants and singularitarians, Bella Bathurst searches for the answers and reaches some startling conclusions. As science and spirituality converge, what's the next leap: humans with the souls of computers, or conscious machines?