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

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.

For the first time, scientists have observed the iconic Shapiro steps, a staircase-like quantum effect, in ultracold atoms.

Carbon ID hydrogen fuel cell bipolar plates for aerospace combine contradictory properties for a corrosion-free alternative ...

Taken together, these strands point in the same direction: CEOs and senior leaders must shift from an “AI productivity” ...

The Harvard professor provides a ceaseless flow of startling details in this exhaustively researched, 1000-year account ...

Smart glasses are no longer niche gizmos with a fading vanity factor. On the contrary, they now offer a peak into the future ...

DSM diagnoses can be useful. But they can also pathologize normal emotions, and the line between "healthy" and "disordered" ...

Once industrial validation is achieved, the next inflection point is not linear growth. It is compounding leverage. This is ...

Signs informal agreement with DA to cooperate in prosecution of partner charged with molesting daughter for years Man ...