Find a direct link to the paper here. A thought experiment Imagine that you wake up in a strange room. It’s not the nice bedroom you went to sleep in, but a dimly lit cell with a damp, cold floor. The walls are made out of cracking plaster and the only intended way in or…

Direct link to Science paper full text. Introduction From the moment we are born, we begin using our senses to build a coherent model of the world. As we grow, we constantly refine our model and access it effortlessly as we go about our lives. If we see a ball rolling onto the street, we might reason that a child…

Direct link to CVPR paper here. Introduction Humans understand the world as a sum of its parts. Shapes are composed of other shapes, objects can be broken down into pieces, and this sentence is nothing more than a series of words. When presented with a new shape, object, or sentence, people can decompose the novelty into familiar parts.…