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- Information theoryThe mathematical study of how information is quantified, stored, and communicated.ComputingTheory8 connections
- AlgorithmA finite sequence of well-defined steps that solves a class of problems or performs a computation.ComputingConcept6 connections
- Neural networkA computational model built from layers of simple connected units whose weighted connections are learned from data.ComputingConcept6 connections
- Philosophy of mindThe branch of philosophy that studies the nature of the mind and its relationship to the body.PhilosophyField6 connections
- Probability theoryThe branch of mathematics that describes uncertainty and random events with precise rules.MathematicsField6 connections
- Alan TuringBritish mathematician whose 1936 model of computation defined what it means for a problem to be solvable by a machine.ComputingPerson5 connections
- Statistical mechanicsThe framework that derives the bulk properties of matter from the probabilistic behavior of its constituents.PhysicsField5 connections
- Turing machineAn abstract machine that reads and writes symbols on an infinite tape according to a finite table of rules.ComputingConcept5 connections
- ConsciousnessSubjective experience: the fact that there is something it is like to perceive, feel, or think.PhilosophyConcept4 connections
- DNADeoxyribonucleic acid, the double-helix molecule that carries the hereditary instructions of living organisms.BiologyConcept4 connections
- EntropyA measure of the number of microscopic arrangements consistent with a system’s macroscopic state.PhysicsConcept4 connections
- Gödel’s incompleteness theoremsTwo theorems showing that any consistent formal system rich enough for arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove.MathematicsTheory4 connections
- Graph theoryThe study of graphs: structures made of vertices connected by edges, used to model relationships of every kind.MathematicsField4 connections
- LogicThe study of correct reasoning and of the forms that make arguments valid.PhilosophyField4 connections
- Quantum mechanicsThe physical theory that describes nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles.PhysicsTheory4 connections
- ThermodynamicsThe study of heat, work, and energy, and of the laws that limit how they can be converted.PhysicsField4 connections
- Chinese roomA thought experiment arguing that running a program cannot by itself produce understanding.PhilosophyConcept3 connections
- EpistemologyThe theory of knowledge: what it is, how it is justified, and where its limits lie.PhilosophyField3 connections
- EvolutionThe change in heritable characteristics of populations over successive generations.BiologyTheory3 connections
- Genetic codeThe set of rules by which sequences of three bases, called codons, specify amino acids.BiologyConcept3 connections
- Maxwell’s demonA thought experiment in which an intelligent being appears to reduce entropy by sorting molecules.PhysicsConcept3 connections
- Natural selectionThe process by which heritable traits that improve survival and reproduction become more common over time.BiologyConcept3 connections
- NeuronAn electrically excitable cell that receives, processes, and transmits signals in the nervous system.BiologyConcept3 connections
- Leonhard EulerSwiss mathematician whose work spans analysis, number theory, mechanics, and the first results in graph theory.MathematicsPerson2 connections
- Seven Bridges of KönigsbergA historical puzzle about crossing each of a city’s seven bridges exactly once, whose solution founded graph theory.MathematicsEvent2 connections