The concept of human understanding revolves around finding ways to treat patients as unique individuals and personalize each patient’s experiences in every interaction with the healthcare system. NRC ...

In a break from our normal practice, Ars is publishing this helpful guide to knowing how to prompt the "human brain," should you encounter one during your daily routine. Human prompt engineering is an ...

We all desire to be healthy. The practice of medicine seeks to restore health. Our institutions of public health aim to preserve and promote health. But what is health? The World Health Organization ...

After years of accelerated hype, 2026 is shaping up to be a year of “recalibration” for artificial intelligence.

A central feature of the Unified Theory of Knowledge (UTOK) is that it affords us a way to scientifically frame the ontology of the mental (see here for this argument in detail). Via the Tree of ...

Human-machine understanding (HMU) represents the next frontier in human-centric technology. By integrating insights from human behavioural data, cognitive science and psychology with artificial ...

Science shows that dogs learn to form mental representations of words, shedding light on why they often seem to grasp our conversations. Nothing quite captures the heart like videos of dogs appearing ...