What was your favorite toy growing up? This paradox claims that memory—and every other one—is just a random fluctuation.

Whether it is a beloved childhood recollection or the simple knowledge of what you had for breakfast, our memories often seem like the only things we can be certain of. But, according to a group of ...

In a recent paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst examine a longstanding, paradoxical thought experiment in statistical physics ...

Cosmology has a way of turning everyday certainty inside out, and few ideas do it more brutally than the suggestion that your entire life story could be a physical fluke. The Boltzmann brain puzzle ...

“Do we have a chance of ever understanding brain function without brain simulations?” So asked the Human Brain Project (HBP), the brainchild of Henry Markram, in a new paper in the prestigious journal ...