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How to take on AI's challenge to ideas about what can be conscious

An impressive and exuberant book by neuroscientist Christof Koch challenges the idea that simulating intelligence and consciousness is identical to the real deal

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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Ray Kurzweil and other experts clash over AI’s future in new books

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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Personnel of the World class Danish restaurant Noma works in the kichten on May 31, 2021 in Copenhagen. - While the six-month Covid-19 closure has been tough for Noma, consistently ranked as one of the world's top restaurants, it's also been an opportunity to reinvent its cuisine. As it reopened this June, the restaurant has reworked its menu -- in part to take the lack of foreign tourists into account. (Photo by Thibault Savary / AFP) (Photo by THIBAULT SAVARY/AFP via Getty Images)

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Arielle Johnson digs into the science of flavour in her tasty new book

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Annie Jacobsen: Everything I learned about nuclear war shocked me

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Annie Jacobsen: 'What if we had a nuclear war?’

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Annie Jacobsen: 'What if we had a nuclear war?’

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Read an extract from Nuclear War: A scenario by Annie Jacobsen

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Read an extract from Nuclear War: A scenario by Annie Jacobsen

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Nuclear War, A scenario review: What if the US faces a first strike?

Annie Jacobsen's unusually detailed account of our nuclear past and present is a terrifying look at what would happen if a nuclear power attacked the US

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Martin MacInnes: 'Science fiction can be many different things'

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Annie Bot review: A sharp take on a sex robot that becomes human

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‘It is all but impossible life exists, and yet it is here’

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Read an extract from In Ascension by Martin MacInnes

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