The Key Laboratory of Neuroinformatics of the Ministry of Education provides strong support for research in language cognition. This research direction focuses on the cognitive neural mechanisms of language learning and processing, conducting a series of studies from two dimensions:" how the brain learns different languages" and "how different languages shape the brain". The laboratory also hosts several brain information research platforms, including the"Innovative Intelligence Base for Neuroinformatics" (111 Program) jointly established by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs and the Ministry of Education, and the "International Joint Research Center for Neuroinformatics" under the Ministry of Science and Technology.
As one of the first key laboratories for philosophy and social sciences in Sichuan Province, it integrates resources from related advantageous disciplines such as Computer Science and Technology, Information and Communication Engineering, aggregates and manages big data resources for public governance, develops foundational models and integrated platforms for digital intelligence, and is dedicated to promoting the transformation of research paradigms in social sciences. The laboratory explores new pathways for collaboration among government, industry, academia, research, and application, leveraging digitalization and intelligence to advance the modernization of the national governance system and capabilities.
As a new Think Tank of Sichuan Province, it leverages the university's preponderant disciplines, concentrates on the burgeoning digital economy, provides comprehensive and multi-tiered services to meet national strategic demands as well as local economic and social development needs. It actively exerts its "professional empowerment" role in various domains such as green operations in manufacturing enterprises, high-quality development of the real economy, high-quality development of manufacturing services, financial technology and governance, regional resource and environmental governance, cultivation of emerging technology industries, integration of innovation and industrial chains, and intellectual property operations.
The Center is dedicated to the study of ethical and governance issues in the fields of synthetic biology, biomedical big data, AI, and the convergence of AI and BT technologies. It strives to establish itself as an influential academic platform and high-end think tank in the realm of emerging science and technology ethics governance. The center has fostered close academic collaboration and exchanges with prestigious international universities such as Harvard University, Oxford University, Yale University, and the University of Southern California. In partnership with scholars from the UK, USA, and Europe, it has co-founded the international academic platform for biotechnology governance, "BioGovernance Commons", and jointly released the "Declaration on Ethical Governance of Synthetic Biology" with the international organization iGEM.
The center conducts scholarly research and theoretical construction in four domains: the philosophy of formal sciences, the philosophy of natural sciences, general philosophy of science, and the philosophy of dialectical logic, adhering to the principle of integrating the general laws of international philosophy of science with the specific practices of Chinese dialectics of nature.
Inspired by the philosophy of dialectical logic and the history of science and technology, the center aims to create original theories that enrich the endogeneity of modal logic or probability theory. Building upon the original theories of the philosophy of formal sciences, it explores the logical and probabilistic foundations of quantum physics and AI. The center proposes a general philosophy of science characterized by contemporary philosophical logic permeationism and investigates the dual nature of dialectical logic as both formal and dialectical.