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

Every task we perform on a computer—whether number crunching, watching a video, or typing out an article—requires different ...

The idea that the universe itself might be intelligent sounds like science fiction, yet a growing group of researchers is ...

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

These are not “nice-to-haves”; they are prerequisites for distributed cognition, operating at machine speed. As Tatipamula and Cerf point out, the network can no longer simply host intelligence. It ...

A theoretical compass to complement the age of AI-driven fusion physicsPhysicists at The University of Osaka have unveiled a ...

The race to harness quantum mechanics for computing power is finally colliding with the real economy. After a century of ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

A classic math rule now handles infinity. New work strengthens the math behind physics and unbounded systems. % ...

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

This year, AI continued looming large in the software world. But more than before, people are wrestling with both its amazing ...