Neuroscience

Are We Stochastic Parrots, Too? What LLMs Teach Us About Intelligence And Understanding

Having interacted for a few months with ChatGPT 5 now, both for work-related problems and for private / self-learning tasks, I feel I might share some thoughts here on what these large models can tell us about our own thought processes.  The sentence above ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 24 2025 - 6:48am

Here's What Happens To Your Brain When You Give Up Sugar For Lent

Anyone who knows me also knows that I have a huge sweet tooth. I always have. My friend and fellow graduate student Andrew is equally afflicted, and living in Hershey, Pennsylvania – the “Chocolate Capital of the World” – doesn’t help either of us. But An ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 16 2026 - 11:26am

At 2 Months, Babies Can Categorize Objects

At two months of age, infants lack language and fine motor control but their minds may be understanding how things look and figuring out to which category they belong, which would push back earlier beliefs about the foundations of visual cognition. A new s ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2026 - 1:20pm