# Computer Science **Entity class:** Technology, method, or technical system **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Type:** Computational discipline **Primary sources:** [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]]; [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] ## Relationships - Computer science contributes segmentation, data systems, predictive modeling, neural decoding, and interface software to the neurotech cluster. - [[wiki/Sebastian Seung|Sebastian Seung]] holds a computer-science professorship alongside his neuroscience role; [[wiki/Thomas Macrina|Thomas Macrina]] is described as working across neuroscience and computer science. <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> This entry's documented connections are expressed in its definition and related-work routes, with provenance retained in the source-linked material. <!-- END HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> ## Related Work in the Corpus <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> - In [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]], **MICrONS: Function-Structure Registration at Mammalian Scale** provides the narrative context for **Computer Science**: Key Princeton contributors include J. <!-- END HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "What we normally call thinking is obsessively "goal oriented." But is there a kind of goal serving no purpose—and can only a human brain latch onto such a perverse idea?" > **— Richard Foreman**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Machine Succession/Goal-Free Thinking May Be Uniquely Human by Richard Foreman|Goal-Free Thinking May Be Uniquely Human by Richard Foreman]] > "One gloomy possibility is that we become zombie consumers of a machine-run world straight out of an apocalyptic futuristic film noir." > **— Athena Vouloumanos**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Machine Succession/Humans Could Become Consumers of a Machine-Run World by Athena Vouloumanos|Humans Could Become Consumers of a Machine-Run World by Athena Vouloumanos]] > "The patterns involved can easily exceed what the human mind can grasp." > **— Bart Kosko**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Machine Succession/Machine Patterns Can Exceed Human Understanding by Bart Kosko|Machine Patterns Can Exceed Human Understanding by Bart Kosko]] > "Anthropologists use the term symbolic thinking to describe the human ability to arbitrarily bestow an abstract concept upon the concrete world." > **— Helen Fisher**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Machine Succession/Symbolic Thinking Makes Abstract Concepts Concrete by Helen Fisher|Symbolic Thinking Makes Abstract Concepts Concrete by Helen Fisher]] > "One intriguing possibility is that for a machine to think about thinking, it will need to have something like free will." > **— Hans Halvorson**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Machine Succession/Thinking About Thinking May Require Free Will by Hans Halvorson|Thinking About Thinking May Require Free Will by Hans Halvorson]]