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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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The anomalies studied by behavioral economists suggest that logic is rarely the most important factor in decisions.

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 ...

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

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Japanese scientists unveil a catalyst that turns CO₂ into liquid methanol at room temperature with 100% efficiency.