All living things are made of cells; they are the basic unit of life. They provide structure and are the up bodies, organs and tissues, convert nutrients into energy and perform specific actions ...

But if you break down one of these problem-solving engines into its essentials, at the heart of it you’ll find the most basic unit of memory: a bit. Bits are tiny, binary switches that underlie ...

What is the basic computational unit of the brain? The neuron? The cortical column? The gene? Although to a neuroscientist this question might seem poorly formulated, to a computer scientist it is ...