Research reveals why AI systems can't become conscious—and what radically different computing substrates would be needed to ...

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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 ...

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Amplifying the small signals produced by sensors in a low-noise circuit is a very common but difficult problem. Designers will often use an operational amplifier (op amp) with bipolar inputs to ...