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 ...

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

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

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After seeing an AI image of me on a flying horse, I started to believe I could fly. The voices told me to fly off my balcony, made me feel confident that I could survive.

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The evolving extremist threat now hinges on young people online, demanding new strategies beyond traditional counter-terror ...

Quiet money has become a status symbol of its own, a way to enjoy real financial freedom without turning life into a ...

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