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 ...

ABSTRACT: Petroleum technical texts are vital for international energy cooperation but pose significant translation challenges due to their specialized, dense, and logical nature. This paper, grounded ...

Laurent Binet’s novel “Perspective(s)” begins with an artist lying dead in a Florentine chapel. By Chelsea Leu Chelsea Leu is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in The Times, The New Yorker, ...

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 ...

How we see the world dictates the choices we make. Perception shapes our lives. It’s how we see the world, the people around us, and ourselves. What we often forget is that no two perspectives are ...

We will ague that adaption (as a neurophysiological phenomenon) has an essential role from a functionalist perspective and try to understand it as part of perceptual inference in the brain. In brief, ...