Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational ...

A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new ...

Carnegie Mellon University will introduce new academic programs and resources for students and researchers to blend traditional humanistic inquiry with computational methods like computer vision, ...

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...