Our brains handle vast amounts of complicated information. So, how exactly does the mind make sense of all the many things it has to deal with? While there are a few different ideas, information ...

This is Part 4 of a five-part series. Integrated information theory (IIT) is a theory of consciousness. It was first formulated by the neuroscientist and psychiatrist Giulio Tononi in the early 2000s ...

In contrast to classical theory, quantum theory has the remarkable property that the state space of every system has continuously many pure states. These are states that can be seen as states of ...

In a video from the early 1950s, Bell Labs scientist Claude Shannon demonstrates one of his new inventions: a toy mouse named Theseus that looks like it could be a wind-up. The gaunt Shannon, looking ...