A review and update of a controversial 20-year-old theory of consciousness claims that consciousness derives from deeper level, finer scale activities inside brain neurons. The recent discovery of ...

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In my last post, Artificial Intelligence and the Shape of Reality, I jumped off the deep end and explored an idea that surprised even me as I wrote it—that the high-dimensional space in which large ...

Atom imaging: The image at left shows the atoms present in the 2D material. At right are photos of single atoms. (Courtesy: The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois ...