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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 lo…

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 resurfa…

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. “Compu…

We still know embarrassingly little about the origin of perhaps the most important evolutionary product for our species - natural language. Communication is a widespread phenomenon in the animal world, occurring across the entire “tree of life” …