内容摘要：About 400 paintings and thousands of sketches came to light after Tucker's death and it was hailed as an important discovery in British art.

About 400 paintings and thousands of sketches came to light after Tucker's death and it was hailed as an important discovery in British art.

As the strobing begins, and even though my eyes are closed, I see swirling two-dimensional geometric patterns. It's like jumping into a kaleidoscope, with constantly shifting triangles, pentagons and octagons. The colours are vivid, intense and ever-changing: pinks, magentas and turquoise hues, glowing like neon lights.The "Dreamachine" brings the brain's inner activity to the surface with flashing lights, aiming to explore how our thought processes work.

The images I'm seeing are unique to my own inner world and unique to myself, according to the researchers. They believe these patterns can shed light on consciousness itself.They hear me whisper: "It's lovely, absolutely lovely. It's like flying through my own mind!"The "Dreamachine", at Sussex University's

, is just one of many new research projects across the world investigating human consciousness: the part of our minds that enables us to be self-aware, to think and feel and make independent decisions about the world.By learning the nature of consciousness, researchers hope to better understand what's happening within the silicon brains of artificial intelligence. Some believe that AI systems will soon become independently conscious, if they haven't already.

But what really is consciousness, and how close is AI to gaining it? And could the belief that AI might be conscious itself fundamentally change humans in the next few decades?

The idea of machines with their own minds has long been explored in science fiction. Worries about AI stretch back nearly a hundred years to the film Metropolis, in which a robot impersonates a real woman.Stewart Wingate, who took up his position at Gatwick in 2010, is moving on to a newly created role overseeing three UK airports.

As managing director, UK airports, for Vinci Airports and Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) he will oversee the future development and strategic direction of Gatwick, Edinburgh and Belfast International, with the chief executives of all three airports reporting to him.Pierre-Hugues Schmit, currently chief commercial and operational officer at Vinci Airports and a non-executive director on the Gatwick board, will take over at the West Sussex airport.

Both appointments will start on 1 September.Gatwick is one of the busiest single-runway airports in the world, serving approximately 43.2 million passengers in 2024.