There has been a recent resurgence in the area of explainable artificial intelligence as
researchers and practitioners seek to provide more transparency to their algorithms. Much of …

Evolution is a blind fitting process by which organisms become adapted to their
environment. Does the brain use similar brute-force fitting processes to learn how to …

Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are digital technologies that will have significant
impact on the development of humanity in the near future. They have raised fundamental …

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path-breaking, thought-provoking and in-depth study of how new technology will transform …

Synthetic biology and bioengineering provide the opportunity to create novel embodied
cognitive systems (otherwise known as minds) in a very wide variety of chimeric …

This paper proposes a conceptualization of the life course as a set of behavioral processes
characterized by interdependencies that cross time, life domains, and levels of analysis. We …

A thought-provoking argument that consciousness—more widespread than previously
assumed—is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack In The …

How does language inform our downstream thinking? In particular, how do humans make
meaning from language--and how can we leverage a theory of linguistic meaning to build …

Just as metacognition is cognition about cognition, and a metatheory is a theory about
theories, the meta-problem is a problem about a problem. The initial problem is the hard …

Metacognition–the ability to represent, monitor and control ongoing cognitive processes–
helps us perform many tasks, both when acting alone and when working with others. While …