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.

As is our end of year tradition, we’ve gathered together some industry spokespeople to tell us what they think the biggest ...

It’s not about robots in labs anymore someone just bought a thousand of them.” This has recently become the message that has resonated throughout the world’s robotics community, as received recently ...

Is software architecture art, science, engineering, or something new? This debate has long been central to the community.

After a year dominated by pilots and proofs of concept, enterprises are entering a more consequential phase of digital transformation. In 2026, the defining question will no longer be whether advanced ...

Enterprises are investing billions of dollars in AI agents and infrastructure to transform business processes. However, we are seeing limited success in real-world applications, often due to the ...

There is more than one way to describe a water molecule, especially when communicating with a machine learning (ML) model, says chemist Robert DiStasio. You can feed the algorithm the molecule's ...