New research from UC Santa Barbara shows that mind-wandering — those moments where our attention drifts away from a task at ...
This is Part 4 of a five-part series on cognition and consciousness. Part 1 explored what we mean by "cognition." In Parts 2 and 3, we examined neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux’s strict definition, which ...
Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.
On neuroscience’s big stage Nov. 15, MIT Professor Earl K. Miller will propose that thought and consciousness emerge from the fast and flexible organization of the cortex produced by the analog ...
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 ...
Loosh launches a cognitive engine giving AI memory, ethics, and decentralized intelligence for real-world autonomy.
The human body is an amazing structure that encompasses both physical and non-physical organs, each with their own special skill-sets, and responsibilities. When we talk about human anatomy, the brain ...