computation
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The aim is to find a material that can store information, perform computation, and adapt within the same physical structure and do so in real time.
From Science Daily
Items in short supply include the ultrathin layers of silicon substrate some chips require and memory chips, the semiconductors that feed data to AI processors and help store the results of computations.
This process is thought to underlie decisions, thoughts, and memories, and studying it directly could help explain how the brain performs complex computations.
From Science Daily
But dismissing these behaviors as “mere” computation assumes we know what consciousness requires.
If we want a serious account of how brains compute, and what it would take to build minds in other substrates, we first need a broader definition of what "computation" can be.
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