What if our understanding of consciousness has been missing the point by trying to compare it to software? The debate on the ...

In 2026, the concept of luxury shifts away from the logic of function and efficiency to take on an ethical and cultural ...

A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational functionalism, which treats cognition as something you can fully expl ...

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

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If I wanted to be controversial, as a sociologist, I might say that serial murder is “functional” for society. However, a less inflammatory way to say the same thing is that serial murder can be ...

ABSTRACT: With globalization, China has been gaining increasing international influence. In order to give the international community a better understanding of China, the News translation becomes ...

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