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Google is an excellent computational science company. To the extent that breakthroughs are possible in computer science, Google continues to push the envelope of knowledge to greater heights. However, an award that was supposed to cement that position for good exposed Google at the foundation of science. Google is not the heavyweight, at all, in theoretical science, as it is in computational science. There have been several criticisms of the award, which, aside from the

Here is a concept of how the human brain mechanizes all its information functions for the rest of the nervous and other systems. Clusters of neurons make it possible to have [their] electrical and chemical signals in sets. Some clusters may have one set, some may have several sets, but electrical and chemical signals decide to function in sets, in clusters of neurons. It is these respective sets [of signals] that hold or organize information

How big of a problem is digital piracy? It can be argued that regulation and litigation have ensured mitigation from the mainstream. However, when some AI companies needed training data, why were pirated copies of contents allegedly [accessible to be] crawled and scraped? Why are several other unlawful events possible online, in ways that are not in the physical world—so to speak? What is peculiar about digital that makes it difficult for regulation and litigation to

It is not just that the neural correlates of consciousness may never be found—because they do not exist, it is that seeking them would continue to setback consciousness science research. Consciousness is supposed to be different from functions, which should have ruled out that there are correlates. Neuroscience has identified several clusters of neurons responsible for functions, like place cells, grid cells, CA1, CA2, HONs, medial/lateral, and so forth. They are said to be areas

What can large language models [LLMs] do for prompt and quality sleep? All humans sleep. There are several aspects of sleep that, at varying rates, services could be provided. If any LLM model can provide sleep service, it could become a major path to profitability and a key service to humanity—amid sleep deficits and adjacent conditions. Sleep is the kind of problem that LLMs can solve that would not just be a commercialization win, but a give

There is a new paper in Nature—Communications Physics, Unveiling universal aspects of the cellular anatomy of the brain, where the authors wrote, “Our results indicate that the cellular structure of the brains of multiple organisms show signatures of being at or close to a structural phase transition and that the corresponding critical exponents are consistent between organisms. If these structural properties of the brain are indeed critical and universal between organisms, we would expect to