In a first, scientists engineered a material that can 'think' and 'sense'

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/us-engineered-material-can-sense-think

"sensing and actuating functionalities in soft matter... relation between Boolean mathematics and kinematically reconfigurable electrical circuits... combinational logic operations in soft, conductive materials... minimizes canonical functions of combinational logic by Quine–McCluskey method... perform higher-level arithmetic, number comparison, and decode binary data to visual representations... increase computational density of the materials by a monolithic layer-by-layer design approach"