Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the ...

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 ...

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

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

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

This issue is to capture demand and question for scenario's around computer use, we currently do not plan on supporting this because the complexity of the second bullet below is vast, but that might ...

Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...

Title from title screen viewed 20 April, 2001 using Netscape Communicator 4.7. Web version of a touring exhibition held at eight American museums from Jan. 7, 2000-June 30, 2002. Mode of access: World ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

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The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. It’s become fashionable to point out that AI agents are failing to meet expectations. But from a ...