A new philosophical study challenges the idea that consciousness is exclusive to biological life. Researchers propose that conscious experience may emerge in a wide range of physical systems—from artificial intelligence to exotic forms of alien life—through a concept known as substrate flexibility.
Drawing on the Copernican Principle, the theory suggests that the human brain is just one possible path to consciousness, opening the door to the possibility that the universe may be home to minds vastly different from our own.
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