The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer ...

Numerical and Computational Mathematics is a discipline dedicated to the development and analysis of algorithms that provide approximate solutions to mathematical problems too complex for exact ...

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 ...

Black holes — remnants of collapsed stars — have immense mass that curves spacetime so all paths lead inward. They also ...