Best Paul Middlebrooks Podcasts (2024)

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BI 190 Luis Favela: The Ecological Brain 1:41:03

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Luis Favela is an Associate Professor at Indiana University Bloomington. He is part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part many things, and on this episode we discuss his new book, The Ecological Brain: Unifying the Sciences of Brain, Body, and Environment. In the book, Loui…

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BI 189 Joshua Vogelstein: Connectomes and Prospective Learning 1:27:19

14d ago1:27:19

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Jovo, as you'll learn, is theoretically oriented, and enjoys the formalism of mathematics to approach questions that begin with a sense of wonder. So after I learn more about his overall approach, the first topic we discuss is the world's currently largest map of an entire brain.…

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BI 188 Jolande Fooken: Coordinating Action and Perception 1:28:14

2M ago1:28:14

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Jolande Fooken is a post-postdoctoral researcher interested in how we move our eyes and move our hands together to accomplish naturalistic tasks. Hand-eye coordination is one of those things that sounds simple and we do it all the time to make meals for our children day in, and d…

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BI 187: COSYNE 2024 Neuro-AI Panel 1:03:35

4M ago1:03:35

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Recently I was invited to moderate a panel at the annual Computational and Systems Neuroscience, or COSYNE, conference. This year was the 20th anniversary of COSYNE, and we were in Lisbon Porturgal. The panel goal was to discuss the relationship between neuroscience and AI. The p…

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BI 186 Mazviita Chirimuuta: The Brain Abstracted 1:43:34

4M ago1:43:34

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Mazviita Chirimuuta is a philosopher at the University of Edinburgh. Today we discuss topics from her new book, The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience. She largely argues that when we try to understand something complex, like the brain,…

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BI 185 Eric Yttri: Orchestrating Behavior 1:44:50

5M ago1:44:50

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. As some of you know, I recently got back into the research world, and in particular I work in Eric Yttris' lab at Carnegie Mellon University. Eric's lab studies the relationship between various kinds of behaviors and the neural activity in a few areas known to be involved in enac…

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BI 184 Peter Stratton: Synthesize Neural Principles 1:30:47

6M ago1:30:47

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Peter Stratton is a research scientist at Queensland University of Technology. I was pointed toward Pete by a patreon supporter, who sent me a sort of perspective piece Pete wrote that is the main focus of our conversation, although we also talk about some of his work in particul…

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BI 183 Dan Goodman: Neural Reckoning 1:28:54

6M ago1:28:54

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. You may know my guest as the co-founder of Neuromatch, the excellent online computational neuroscience academy, or as the creator of the Brian spiking neural network simulator, which is freely available. I know him as a spiking neural network practitioner extraordinaire. Dan Good…

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BI 182: John Krakauer Returns… Again 1:25:42

7M ago1:25:42

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience John Krakauer has been on the podcast multiple times (see links below). Today we discuss some topics framed around what he's been working on and thinking about lately. Things like Whether brains actually r…

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BI 181 Max Bennett: A Brief History of Intelligence 1:27:30

7M ago1:27:30

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience By day, Max Bennett is an entrepreneur. He has cofounded and CEO'd multiple AI and technology companies. By many other countless hours, he has studied brain related sciences. Those long hours of research h…

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BI 180 Panel Discussion: Long-term Memory Encoding and Connectome Decoding 1:29:27

8M ago1:29:27

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Welcome to another special panel discussion episode. I was recently invited to moderate at discussion amongst 6 people at the annual Aspirational Neuroscience meetup. Aspirational Neuroscience is a nonprofit community run by Kenneth Hayworth. Ken has been on the podcast before on…

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BI 179 Laura Gradowski: Include the Fringe with Pluralism 1:39:06

8M ago1:39:06

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Laura Gradowski is a philosopher of science at the University of Pittsburgh. Pluralism is roughly the idea that there is no unified account of any scientific field, that we should be tolerant of and welcom…

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BI 178 Eric Shea-Brown: Neural Dynamics and Dimensions 1:35:31

9M ago1:35:31

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Eric Shea-Brown is a theoretical neuroscientist and principle investigator of the working group on neural dynamics at the University of Washington. In this episode, we talk a lot about dynamics and dimensi…

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BI 177 Special: Bernstein Workshop Panel 1:13:54

9M ago1:13:54

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. I was recently invited to moderate a panel at the Annual Bernstein conference - this one was in Berlin Germany. The panel I moderated was at a satellite workshop at the conference called How can machine learning be used to generate insights and theories in neuroscience? Below are…

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BI 176 David Poeppel Returns 1:23:57

10M ago1:23:57

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. David runs his lab at NYU, where they stud`y auditory cognition, speech perception, language, and music. On the heels of the episode with David Glanzman, we discuss the ongoing mystery regarding how memory works, how to study and think about brains and minds, and the reemergence …

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BI 175 Kevin Mitchell: Free Agents 1:46:32

10M ago1:46:32

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Kevin Mitchell is professor of genetics at Trinity College Dublin. He's been on the podcast before, and we talked a little about his previous book, Innate – How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are. …

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BI 174 Alicia Juarrero: Context Changes Everything 1:45:00

11M ago1:45:00

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Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Alicia Juarrero is a philosopher and has been interested in complexity since before it was cool. In this episode, we discuss many of the topics and ideas in her new book, Context Changes Everything: How Co…

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BI 173 Justin Wood: Origins of Visual Intelligence 1:35:45

11M ago1:35:45

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. In the intro, I mention the Bernstein conference workshop I'll participate in, called How can machine learning be used to generate insights and theories in neuroscience?. Follow that link to learn more, and register for the conference here. Hope to see you there in late September…

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BI 172 David Glanzman: Memory All The Way Down 1:30:58

12M ago1:30:58

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. David runs his lab at UCLA where he's also a distinguished professor. David used to believe what is currently the mainstream view, that our memories are stored in our synapses, those connections between our neurons. So as we learn, the synaptic connections strengthen and weaken u…

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BI 171 Mike Frank: Early Language and Cognition 1:24:40

1y ago1:24:40

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience My guest is Michael C. Frank, better known as Mike Frank, who runs the Language and Cognition lab at Stanford. Mike's main interests center on how children learn language - in particular he focuses a lot o…

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BI 170 Ali Mohebi: Starting a Research Lab 1:17:15

1y ago1:17:15

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience In this episode I have a casual chat with Ali Mohebi about his new faculty position and his plans for the future. Ali's website. Twitter: @mohebialBy Paul Middlebrooks

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BI 169 Andrea Martin: Neural Dynamics and Language 1:41:30

1y ago1:41:30

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience My guest today is Andrea Martin, who is the Research Group Leader in the department of Language and Computation in Neural Systems at the Max Plank Institute and the Donders Institute. Andrea is deeply inte…

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BI 168 Frauke Sandig and Eric Black w Alex Gomez-Marin: AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness 1:54:42

1y ago1:54:42

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Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. This is one in a periodic series of episodes with Alex Gomez-Marin, exploring how the arts and humanities can impact (neuro)science. Artistic creations, like cinema, have the ability to momentarily lower o…

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BI 167 Panayiota Poirazi: AI Brains Need Dendrites 1:27:43

1y ago1:27:43

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Panayiota Poirazi runs the Poirazi Lab at the FORTH Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, and Yiota loves dendrites, those branching tree-like structures sticking out of all your neurons, and s…

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BI 166 Nick Enfield: Language vs. Reality 1:27:12

1y ago1:27:12

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Nick Enfield is a professor of linguistics at the University of Sydney. In this episode we discuss topics in his most recent book, Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scienti…

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BI 165 Jeffrey Bowers: Psychology Gets No Respect 1:38:45

1+ y ago1:38:45

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Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Jeffrey Bowers is a psychologist and professor at the University of Bristol. As you know, many of my previous guests are in the business of comparing brain activity to the activity of units in artificial n…

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BI 164 Gary Lupyan: How Language Affects Thought 1:31:54

1+ y ago1:31:54

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Gary Lupyan runs the Lupyan Lab at University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he studies how language and cognition are related. In some ways, this is a continuation of the conversation I had last episode wit…

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BI 163 Ellie Pavlick: The Mind of a Language Model 1:21:34

1+ y ago1:21:34

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Ellie Pavlick runs her Language Understanding and Representation Lab at Brown University, where she studies lots of topics related to language. In AI, large language models, sometimes called foundation mod…

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BI 162 Earl K. Miller: Thoughts are an Emergent Property 1:23:27

1+ y ago1:23:27

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Earl Miller runs the Miller Lab at MIT, where he studies how our brains carry out our executive functions, like working memory, attention, and decision-making. In particular he is interested in the role of…

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BI 161 Hugo Spiers: Navigation and Spatial Cognition 1:34:38

1+ y ago1:34:38

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Hugo Spiers runs the Spiers Lab at University College London. In general Hugo is interested in understanding spatial cognition, like navigation, in relation to other processes like planning and goal-relate…

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BI 160 Ole Jensen: Rhythms of Cognition 1:28:39

1+ y ago1:28:39

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Ole Jensen is co-director of the Centre for Human Brain Health at University of Birmingham, where he runs his Neuronal Oscillations Group lab. Ole is interested in how the oscillations in our brains affect…

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BI 159 Chris Summerfield: Natural General Intelligence 1:28:53

1+ y ago1:28:53

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Chris Summerfield runs the Human Information Processing Lab at University of Oxford, and he's a research scientist at Deepmind. You may remember him from episode 95 with Sam Gershman, when we discussed ide…

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BI 158 Paul Rosenbloom: Cognitive Architectures 1:35:12

1+ y ago1:35:12

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Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Paul Rosenbloom is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. In the early 1980s, Paul , along with John Laird and the early AI pioneer Alan Newell, developed one the …

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BI 157 Sarah Robins: Philosophy of Memory 1:20:59

1+ y ago1:20:59

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Sarah Robins is a philosopher at the University of Kansas, one a growing handful of philosophers specializing in memory. Much of her work focuses on memory traces, which is roughly the idea that somehow ou…

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BI 156 Mariam Aly: Memory, Attention, and Perception 1:40:45

1+ y ago1:40:45

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Mariam Aly runs the Aly lab at Columbia University, where she studies the interaction of memory, attention, and perception in brain regions like the hippocampus. The short story is that memory affects our …

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BI 155 Luiz Pessoa: The Entangled Brain 1:54:26

1+ y ago1:54:26

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Luiz Pessoa runs his Laboratory of Cognition and Emotion at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he studies how emotion and cognition interact. On this episode, we discuss many of the topics fro…

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BI 154 Anne Collins: Learning with Working Memory 1:22:27

1+ y ago1:22:27

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Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Anne Collins runs her Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at the University of California, Berkley One of the things she's been working on for years is how our working memory plays a role in learning …

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BI 153 Carolyn Dicey-Jennings: Attention and the Self 1:25:30

1+ y ago1:25:30

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Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Carolyn Dicey Jennings is a philosopher and a cognitive scientist at University of California, Merced. In her book The Attending Mind, she lays out an attempt to unify the concept of attention. Carolyn def…

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BI 152 Michael L. Anderson: After Phrenology: Neural Reuse 1:45:11

1+ y ago1:45:11

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Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Michael L. Anderson is a professor at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, at Western University. His book, After Phrenology: Neural Reuse and the Interactive Brain, calls for a re-conceptualization of how …

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BI 151 Steve Byrnes: Brain-like AGI Safety 1:31:17

2y ago1:31:17

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Steve Byrnes is a physicist turned AGI safety researcher. He's concerned that when we create AGI, whenever and however that might happen, we run the risk of creating it in a less than perfectly safe way. AGI safety (AGI not doing something bad) is a wide net that encompasses AGI …

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BI 150 Dan Nicholson: Machines, Organisms, Processes 1:38:29

2y ago1:38:29

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Dan Nicholson is a philosopher at George Mason University. He incorporates the history of science and philosophy into modern analyses of our conceptions of processes related to life and organisms. He is al…

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BI 149 William B. Miller: Cell Intelligence 1:33:54

2y ago1:33:54

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Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. William B. Miller is an ex-physician turned evolutionary biologist. In this episode, we discuss topics related to his new book, Bioverse: How the Cellular World Contains the Secrets to Life's Biggest Quest…

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BI 148 Gaute Einevoll: Brain Simulations 1:28:48

2y ago1:28:48

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Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Gaute Einevoll is a professor at the University of Oslo and Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Use develops detailed models of brain networks to use as simulations, so neuroscientists can test their va…

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BI 147 Noah Hutton: In Silico 1:37:08

2y ago1:37:08

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Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Noah Hutton writes, directs, and scores documentary and narrative films. On this episode, we discuss his documentary In Silico. In 2009, Noah watched a TED talk by Henry Markram, in which Henry claimed it …

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BI 146 Lauren Ross: Causal and Non-Causal Explanation 1:22:51

2y ago1:22:51

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Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Lauren Ross is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine. She studies and writes about causal and non-causal explanations in philosophy of science, including distinctions among causal …

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BI 145 James Woodward: Causation with a Human Face 1:25:52

2y ago1:25:52

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Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. James Woodward is a recently retired Professor from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Jim has tremendously influenced the field of causal explanation in t…

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BI 144 Emily M. Bender and Ev Fedorenko: Large Language Models 1:11:41

2y ago1:11:41

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Check out my short video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience. Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Large language models, often now called "foundation models", are the model de jour in AI, based on the transformer architecture. In this episode, I bring together Evelina Fedorenko and Emily M. Bender to…

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BI 143 Rodolphe Sepulchre: Mixed Feedback Control 1:24:53

2y ago1:24:53

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Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Rodolphe Sepulchre is a control engineer and theorist at Cambridge University. He focuses on applying feedback control engineering principles to build circuits that model neurons and neuronal circuits. We …

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BI 142 Cameron Buckner: The New DoGMA 1:43:16

2y ago1:43:16

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Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Cameron Buckner is a philosopher and cognitive scientist at The University of Houston. He is writing a book about the age-old philosophical debate on how much of our knowledge is innate (nature, rationalis…

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BI 141 Carina Curto: From Structure to Dynamics 1:31:40

2y ago1:31:40

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Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Carina Curto is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at The Pennsylvania State University. She uses her background skills in mathematical physics/string theory to study networks of neurons. On this…

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