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 ...

In conventional computing, we can draw a clean line between software and hardware. In brains, there is no such separation of different scales. In the brain, everything influences everything else, from ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational functionalism, which treats cognition as something you can fully explain ...

Already registered? Click here to login now. Linear electromagnetic devices — such as linear motors, generators, actuators, and magnetic gears — play a vital role in precision motion control, energy ...

Washington — President Trump underwent "advanced imaging" of his abdomen and cardiovascular system for "preventative" reasons, the White House said Monday, one day after the president told reporters ...

From virtual safety fences that protect warehouse workers to pharmaceutical simulations that reduce batch variability, manufacturers are already seeing measurable improvements in safety, efficiency ...

Physical AI holds the promise of making everything from robots to a slew of mobile edge devices much more interactive and useful, but it will significantly alter how systems are designed, verified, ...

College students are being wrongly accused of using AI to cheat on their assignments by their university — based, in a headache-inducing twist, on the findings of another AI system. A student named ...

Teachers’ and students’ use of artificial intelligence in K-12 classrooms is increasing at a rapid pace, prompting serious concerns about the potentially negative effects on students, a new report ...

The United States is one of just three countries that "prefers" imperial measurements over the international metric standard. The motivation why has less to do with official policy than you might ...

The company has since taken down the image of the accused killer. Fast fashion giant Shein is conducting an investigation of its internal processes after using the likeness of Luigi Mangione to model ...

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