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The consciousness debate is often trapped between two extremes: either the brain is “just software” (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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A classic math rule now handles infinity. New work strengthens the math behind physics and unbounded systems. % ...

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