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

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.

With the emergence of new COVID-19 variants, and infections continuing to rise, effective diagnostic software systems are urgently required to support the increasingly overstretched virus testing ...

A professor has helped create a powerful new algorithm that uncovers hidden patterns in complex networks, with potential uses in fraud detection, biology and knowledge discovery. University of ...

Research reveals why AI systems can't become conscious—and what radically different computing substrates would be needed to ...

A new technique allows complex interactions in materials to be simulated using Monte Carlo simulations thousands of times ...

One major issue facing artificial intelligence is the interaction between a computer's memory and its processing capabilities ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

What’s the best way to solve hard problems? That’s the question at the heart of a subfield of computer science called computational complexity theory. It’s a hard question to answer, but flip it ...