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 ...

President Trump told reporters Monday he underwent an MRI and a cognitive test during his “secondary” physical at Walter Reed earlier this year. The president did not detail the reason for the MRI, ...

The Institute of Clinical Excellence has launched the ICE Physio App, a platform designed to facilitate access to its educational resources for physical therapists and rehabilitation providers. This ...

The era of coupon-clipping is over. Smart shoppers everywhere are catching on to a smartphone app that offers cash back — even for grocery items already purchased, Food & Wine has reported. The Aisle ...

Coupling an AI-driven model of the atmosphere with a model of the ocean could help scientists create highly efficient emulations of the entire Earth system. Modelers have demonstrated that artificial ...

A confusing contradiction is unfolding in companies embracing generative AI tools: while workers are largely following mandates to embrace the technology, few are seeing it create real value. Consider ...

Gemini’s mobile adoption has been soaring since the August launch of its Nano Banana image editor model, which has received positive reviews, particularly from users who say they can now more easily ...

Have you noticed that despite your best intentions, the mindfulness meditation app on your phone gathers more dust than actual practice time? You’re not alone. Over ...

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 ...