Two major theories have fueled a now 1,500 year-long debate started by Saint Augustine: Is consciousness continuous, where we are conscious at each single point in time, or is it discrete, where we ...
Research reveals why AI systems can't become conscious—and what radically different computing substrates would be needed to ...
Is our consciousness continuous, or does it occur in discrete chunks? At first glance, this may seem like a strange question. It seems, to us, that our lives are like a movie, where we are perceiving ...
If you’re shopping around for a laptop or individual parts for your custom PC build, chances are you’ve come across technical terms like ‘discrete graphics’ and ‘integrated graphics.’ Sounds a bit ...
Even dedicated grammar nerds can face a roadblock over homonyms. They sound the same—and are sometimes spelled the same—but have different meanings. Pairs like stationary and stationery, elicit and ...
Tomography is a technique for scientific imaging that combines slices or sections of the subject matter detected by a wave. The term comes from the Ancient Greek words for “slice” (τόμος; tomos) and ...
Two major theories have fueled a now 1,500 year-long debate started by Saint Augustine: Is consciousness continuous, where we are conscious at each single point in time, or is it discrete, where we ...