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.

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Structural hierarchy, in which materials possess distinct features on multiple length scales, is ubiquitous in nature. Diverse biological ...