She is David. Trump's authoritarian, xenophobic, racist regime is Goliath. Who are you rooting for?

The question of "what is life?" has challenged scientists and philosophers for centuries, producing an array of definitions that reflect both the mystery of its emergence and the diversity of discipli...

Language carries thought and coordination among humans but rarely reaches further along the spectrum of diverse intelligence. Yet non-neural systems -- from gene regulatory networks and microbial cons...

A hallmark of life on Earth is the ability of agents to exert causal power and be drivers of subsequent events. This is key to cognition at all scales. Causal emergence, measuring the degree to which ...

Abstract. It is assumed that a useful theory of consciousness (ToC) will explain why consciousness is associated with brains. However, the findings of evol

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The son of pensioner Marie-Thérèse told French media he is worried for his mother's frail health as she is detained in a Louisiana ICE centre.

Péter Magyar, the Hungarian Prime Minister-Elect, announced that outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's government had been paying CPAC, but he would put an immediate end to that -- and even went so f...

In 2025, CSI Aviation went from $364 million to $1.2 billion in revenue, making it the #1 ICE contractor, $500M ahead of private prison operator GEO Group.

Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.

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Most of the Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) defined in the literature have a common theme: they are based on regular grids with a Moore neighborhood (one-hop neighbour). They do not take into account ...

Alisa Writes is a newsletter featuring essays, criticism and fiction by award-winning writer Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez. Click to read Alisa Writes, by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, a Substack publication.

The landmark decision in an LA court may go beyond immediate impacts on defendants Meta and YouTube.

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An entertaining introduction to the clashes between philosophy and AI over the last 70 years, from claims and counter-claims about the ability to implement cons…

Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought

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“If anything has free will, everything does.” — Chris Fields

This book provides insight into modern constructs of AI and quantum information and includes tools for the characterization of physical interactions.

The existence and practical utility of operational protocols that certify entanglement raises the question of whether operational protocols exist that certify the absence of entanglement, i.e. that ce...

We study the relationship between computation and scattering both operationally (hence phenomenologically) and formally. We show how topological quantum neural networks (TQNNs) enable universal quantu...

This book provides insight into modern constructs of AI and quantum information and includes tools for the characterization of physical interactions.

Multiple theoretical models of dissociative experiences have been formulated over the last century. These theories are clinically useful; however, it remains...

Whether a quantum computation employs nonlocal resources is operationally undecidable, Fields, Chris, Glazebrook, James F., Marcianò, Antonino, Zappala, Emanuele

Abstract. This paper examines the constraints that the free-energy principle (FEP) places on possible model of consciousness, particularly models of attent