South Africa Science News API

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            "description": "The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol-shuffling way we usually imagine. Instead, computation is inseparable from the brain’s physical structure, energy constraints, and continuous dynamics. That reframes consciousness as something that emerges from a special kind of computing matter, not from running the right program.",
            "content": "In our new paper, we propose a different approach: biological computationalism. The label is meant to be provocative, but also to sharpen the conversation. Our main argument is that the standard computational framework is broken, or at least poorly s... [6160 chars]",
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            "content": "The borderlands of black holes ought to be chaotic spaces where the rate at which matter is drawn across into oblivion is held back only by the blinding fury of radiation spilling away from the edge of darkness.\nThis zone is considered to be unstable... [3456 chars]",
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            "description": "Scientists uncovered the gene that programs social begging in bees. Learn how genetics shapes cooperative behaviour in animals.",
            "content": "Is complex social behaviour genetically determined? Yes, as a team of biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) together with colleagues from Bochum and Paris discovered while studying bees. They identified a genetic factor that dete... [3886 chars]",
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