Recent years have seen a blossoming of theories about the biological and physical basis of
consciousness. Good theories guide empirical research, allowing us to interpret data …

In this article we hypothesise that intelligence, and its associated abilities, can be
understood as subserving the maximisation of reward. Accordingly, reward is enough to …

Departing from traditional linguistic models, advances in deep learning have resulted in a
new type of predictive (autoregressive) deep language models (DLMs). Using a self …

The goal of this paper is to promote the idea that including semantic and goal-oriented
aspects in future 6G networks can produce a significant leap forward in terms of system …

The first comprehensive treatment of active inference, an integrative perspective on brain,
cognition, and behavior used across multiple disciplines. Active inference is a way of …

We review the fast-growing work on salience and economic behavior. Psychological
research shows that salient stimuli attract human attention bottom up due to their high …

Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly
on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care …

Philosopher Ned Block argues in this book that there is a" joint in nature" between
perception and cognition and that by exploring the nature of that joint, one can solve …

This paper provides a critical review of several possible mechanisms at different levels of
analysis underlying the effects and therapeutic potential of psychedelics. At the (1) …

The neuroscience of perception has recently been revolutionized with an integrative
modeling approach in which computation, brain function, and behavior are linked across …