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The term quantum neural computing indicates a unity in the functioning of the brain. It assumes that the neural structures perform classical processing and that the virtual particles associated with the dynamical states of the structures…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-15 Subhash Kak

Though modern neural networks have achieved impressive performance in both vision and language tasks, we know little about the functions that they implement. One possibility is that neural networks implicitly break down complex tasks into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Michael A. Lepori , Thomas Serre , Ellie Pavlick

Advancements in artificial intelligence for molecular science are necessitating a paradigm shift from purely data-driven predictions to knowledge-guided computational reasoning. Existing molecular models are predominantly proprietary,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Pengfei Liu , Shuang Ge , Jun Tao , Zhixiang Ren

No generic function for the minicolumn, i.e., one that would apply equally well to all cortical areas and species, has yet been proposed. I propose that the minicolumn does have a generic functionality, which only becomes clear when seen in…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-07-14 Gerard J. Rinkus

Models of the mind are based on the possibility of computing in brain microtubules. From this point of view, information processing is the fundamental issue for understanding the brain mechanisms that produce consciousness. The cytoskeleton…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Jean Faber , Renato Portugal , Luiz Pinguelli Rosa

Many cellular processes are tightly connected to the dynamics of microtubules (MTs). While in neuronal axons MTs mainly regulate intracellular trafficking, they participate in cytoskeleton reorganization in many other eukaryotic cells,…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-19 M. Reza Shaebani , Aravind Pasula , Albrecht Ott , Ludger Santen

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting significantly improves reasoning in Large Language Models, yet the temporal dynamics of the underlying representation geometry remain poorly understood. We investigate these dynamics by applying Manifold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Chanwoo Chun , Alexandre Polo , SueYeon Chung

Current approaches for scaling inference-time compute in transformers train them to emit explicit chain-of-thought tokens before producing an answer. While these methods are powerful, they are limited because they cannot be applied during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Houjun Liu , Shikhar Murty , Christopher D. Manning , Róbert Csordás

Biological brains demonstrate complex neural activity, where neural dynamics are critical to how brains process information. Most artificial neural networks ignore the complexity of individual neurons. We challenge that paradigm. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Luke Darlow , Ciaran Regan , Sebastian Risi , Jeffrey Seely , Llion Jones

In the last century, most sensorimotor studies of cortical neurons relied on average firing rates. Rate coding is efficient for fast sensorimotor processing that occurs within a few seconds. Much less is known about the neural mechanisms…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-01 Terrence J. Sejnowski

Could there be quantum superpositions of conscious states, as suggested by the Wigner's friend thought experiment? Mathematical theories of consciousness, notably Integrated Information Theory (IIT), make this question more precise by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Kelvin J. McQueen , Ian T. Durham , Markus P. Mueller

Understanding how subjective experience arises from information processing remains a central challenge in neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI research. The Modular Consciousness Theory (MCT) proposes a biologically grounded and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-03 Michaël Gillon

Neurons, as eukaryotic cells, have powerful internal computation capabilities. One neuron can have many distinct states, and brains can use this capability. Processes of neuron growth and maintenance use chemical signalling between cell…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-10 Robert Worden

A microtubule (MT) is a hollow tube of approximately 25 nm diameter. The two ends of the tube are dissimilar and are designated as `plus' and `minus' ends. Motivated by the collective push and pull exerted by a bundle of MTs during…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2015-01-12 Dipanwita Ghanti , Debashish Chowdhury

In Neural Machine Translation (NMT) the usage of subwords and characters as source and target units offers a simple and flexible solution for translation of rare and unseen words. However, selecting the optimal subword segmentation involves…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Tejas Srinivasan , Ramon Sanabria , Florian Metze

Quantum tunneling dominates coherent transport at low temperatures in many systems of great interest. In this work we report a many--body tunneling (MBT), by nonperturbatively solving the Anderson multi-impurity model, and identify it a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-24 WenJie Hou , YuanDong Wang , JianHua Wei , ZhenGang Zhu , YiJing Yan

We seek general principles of the structure of the cellular collective activity associated with conscious awareness. Can we obtain evidence for features of the optimal brain organization that allows for adequate processing of stimuli and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-27 D. M. Mateos , R. Wennberg , R. Guevara , J. L. Perez Velazquez

A central idea in understanding brains and building artificial intelligence is that structure determines function. Yet, how the brain's complex structure arises from a limited set of genetic instructions remains a key question. The ultra…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-28 Xingyu Liu , Yubin Li , Guozhang Chen

This paper critically considers the main interpretations of the wave function and offers an interpretation in which wave function is a consequence of subquantum processes taking place at the level of the organization of matter which…

General Physics · Physics 2017-08-31 V. A. Skrebnev , M. V. Polski

Collapse and reverse to collapse explosion transition in self-gravitating systems are studied by molecular dynamics simulations. A microcanonical ensemble of point particles confined to a spherical box is considered; the particles interact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Ispolatov , M. Karttunen