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

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

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

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

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 ...

Computational complexity and computability are central themes in theoretical computer science that address the fundamental question of what can be computed and at what cost. Computability theory ...

As artificial intelligence continues to become integral to society, some are beginning to think about the nature of consciousness and its potential manifestation in non-biological systems. The ...

The historical pursuit of creating intelligent machines has culminated in the modern era of artificial intelligence. However, the efficacy of AI applications is contingent upon a nuanced understanding ...