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

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 ...

Research reveals why AI systems can't become conscious—and what radically different computing substrates would be needed to ...

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

A new technique allows complex interactions in materials to be simulated using Monte Carlo simulations thousands of times ...

Dynamic programming (DP) algorithms have become indispensable in computational biology, addressing problems that range from sequence alignment and phylogenetic inference to RNA secondary structure ...

Discover why algorithms and data structures form the foundation of contemporary computing. Discover how DS&A spurs innovation ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...