We reflect on lessons that the lottery and preface paradoxes provide for the logic of uncertain inference. One of these lessons is the unreliability of the rule of conjunction of conclusions in such ...

For some mental processes, humans and animals likely follow similar lines of thinking. Catherine Falls Commercial/Moment via Getty Images Can a monkey, a pigeon or a fish reason like a person? It’s a ...

Think wasps are all stings and no intellect? Not quite. A new study from the University of Michigan revealed that there's evidence that paper wasps are actually quite smart, behaving in shockingly ...

Google announces upgrade to Bard chatbot, enhancing math and logic capabilities with PaLM integration. Google has upgraded Bard's math and logic capabilities by incorporating advancements from PaLM.

We all get stuck sometimes: stuck with an opinion about someone, stuck with a hopeless feeling that an employee will not be able to accomplish what we need them to accomplish, stuck in our inability ...

We all have the habit of trying to guess the killer in a movie before the big reveal. That’s us making inferences. It’s what happens when your brain connects the dots without being told everything ...

We often express our thoughts in words to communicate ideas, present arguments or make decisions. But what format and structure do these thoughts take in the brain? In the fields of philosophy, ...

The term "birdbrain" is falling out of fashion, and rightly so. Scientists interested in animal intelligence overlooked birds in favor of humankind's closest relatives, the great apes, for many years.