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A variety of physical inputs acts onto bacteria in nature. However, these are most often ignored in the studies of their physiology. There is now increasing evidence indicating that bacteria respond to physical stimuli, including mechanical forces. Yet, qu ...
EPFL2023Why computational complexity may set impenetrable barriers for epistemic reductionism
Michael Herzog, Christian Sachse, Adrien Christophe Doerig
According to physicalism, everything is physical or metaphysically connected to the physical. If physicalism were true, it seems that we should - in principle - be able to reduce the descriptions and explanations of special sciences to physical ones, for e ...
Dordrecht2023When do Minimax-fair Learning and Empirical Risk Minimization Coincide?
Minimax-fair machine learning minimizes the error for the worst-off group. However, empirical evidence suggests that when sophisticated models are trained with standard empirical risk minimization (ERM), they often have the same performance on the worst-of ...
2023The irreducibility of vision: Gestalt, crowding and the fundamentals of vision
What is fundamental in vision has been discussed for millennia. For philosophical realists and the physiological approach to vision, the objects of the outer world are truly given, and failures to perceive objects properly, such as in illusions, are just s ...
2022Advances in Magnetics Roadmap on Spin-Wave Computing
Qian Wang, Yiming Li, Dirk Grundler, Xiuwei Zhang
Magnonics addresses the physical properties of spin waves and utilizes them for data processing. Scalability down to atomic dimensions, operation in the GHz-to-THz frequency range, utilization of nonlinear and nonreciprocal phenomena, and compatibility wit ...
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022Building perception block by block: a response to Fekete et al.
Michael Herzog, Frank Scharnowski, Adrien Christophe Doerig
Is consciousness a continuous stream, or do percepts occur only at certain moments of time? This age-old question is still under debate. Both positions face difficult problems, which we proposed to overcome with a 2-stage model, where unconscious processin ...
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