Join the Copernicus Festival 2025 volunteer team and help us unravel this year’s mystery!
What will the volunteer’s work consist of? A Copernicus Festival volunteer helps prepare and execute festival events. These are not difficult tasks, but it is through their performance that our festival has a chance to take place. Who are we looking for? People who are available during the period of May 19-25. Responsible souls, communicative […]
More Than a Metaphor
Though some may scoff and grumble, it’s impossible to deny: the human brain resembles a computer. It serves, after all, to process information. Computationalism continues to spark heated, almost ideological debate. Many of these arguments resurface in discussions of artificial intelligence. Critics often point out that the brain is a biological system, that it doesn’t […]
Automated Conversation
Although computers can already do almost everything, they still lack one fundamental ability: to talk to us like one human being talks to another. And we, being only human, are getting increasingly impatient about it. It’s the late 1940s. “Computing machines” are still just cabinets solving mathematical problems, which require a painstaking process of problem-formulation […]
What Came First: Words or Gestures?
Communication is a widespread phenomenon in the animal world, occurring across the entire “tree of life” – and it takes many forms. It can be expressed through gestures (e.g., in great apes), sequences of movements (like birds’ courtship rituals), scents (pheromones released by insects), sounds (e.g., frogs croaking), changes in body coloration (as in cuttlefish), […]