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The Science of Thought

The science of consciousness, cognition, perception, and memory. What is intelligence? We are trying to build it in machines and discovering we do...

The World We Discover

Scientific discovery from quarks to quasars. Physics, space, mathematics, and life sciences - the things we find when human curiosity meets the physical...

The New Intelligence

AI in science: the genuine breakthroughs, the stubborn limits, and the human consequences. Science Reader tracks what happens when artificial intelligence meets scientific...

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Related Fish Species Make Similar Choices, But How They Choose Differs

Two cichlid species share identical preferences but use different decision rules when choices get hard, a PNAS study of over 5,000 trials finds.

Why We Can Never Prove That Someone Else is Conscious

'Rival' scientists use category theory to show that while 'shapes' of experiences might be matched across minds, we can never observe the feeling...

AI Consciousness Is Unlikely, Says Neuroscientist Anil Seth

Neuroscientist Anil Seth argues AI consciousness is unlikely without biology. His TED talk lands amid a widening debate over conscious AI, not intuition.