Brain Inspired
Episodes
BI 129 Patryk Laurent: Learning from the Real World
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Patryk and I discuss his wide-ranging background workin...
BI 128 Hakwan Lau: In Consciousness We Trust
20 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Hakwan and I discuss many of the topics in his new book...
BI 127 Tomás Ryan: Memory, Instinct, and Forgetting
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Tomás and I discuss his research and ideas on how memo...
BI 126 Randy Gallistel: Where Is the Engram?
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Randy and I discuss his long-standing interest in how t...
BI 125 Doris Tsao, Tony Zador, Blake Richards: NAISys
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Doris, Tony, and Blake are the organizers for this year's...
BI 124 Peter Robin Hiesinger: The Self-Assembling Brain
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Robin and I discuss many of the ideas in his book The S...
BI 123 Irina Rish: Continual Learning
26 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Irina is a faculty member at MILA-Quebec AI Institute a...
BI 122 Kohitij Kar: Visual Intelligence
12 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Ko and I discuss a range of topics around his work to understand our vi...
BI 121 Mac Shine: Systems Neurobiology
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Mac and I discuss his systems level approach to underst...
BI 120 James Fitzgerald, Andrew Saxe, Weinan Sun: Optimizing Memories
21 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. James, Andrew, and Weinan discuss their recent theory a...
BI 119 Henry Yin: The Crisis in Neuroscience
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Henry and I discuss why he thinks neuroscience is in a ...
BI 118 Johannes Jäger: Beyond Networks
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Johannes (Yogi) is a freelance philosopher, researcher ...
BI 117 Anil Seth: Being You
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Anil and I discuss a range of topics from his book, BEI...
BI 116 Michael W. Cole: Empirical Neural Networks
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Mike and I discuss his modeling approach to study cogniti...
BI 115 Steve Grossberg: Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain
02 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Steve and I discuss his book Conscious Mind, Resonant B...
BI 114 Mark Sprevak and Mazviita Chirimuuta: Computation and the Mind
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Mark and Mazviita discuss the philosophy and science of m...
BI 113 David Barack and John Krakauer: Two Views On Cognition
12 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. David and John discuss some of the concepts from their re...
BI ViDA Panel Discussion: Deep RL and Dopamine
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
BI 112 Ali Mohebi and Ben Engelhard: The Many Faces of Dopamine
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
BI 112: Ali Mohebi and Ben Engelhard The Many Faces of Dopamine Announcement: Ben has started his new lab and is recruitin...
BI NMA 06: Advancing Neuro Deep Learning Panel
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
BI NMA 05: NLP and Generative Models Panel
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
BI NMA 05: NLP and Generative Models Panel ...
BI NMA 04: Deep Learning Basics Panel
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
BI NMA 04: Deep Learning Basics Panel This ...
BI 111 Kevin Mitchell and Erik Hoel: Agency, Emergence, Consciousness
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Erik, Kevin, and I discuss... well a lot of things. Erik's recent novel The Revelations is a story about a group of neuroscientists trying to deve...
BI NMA 03: Stochastic Processes Panel
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Panelists: Yael Niv.@yael_nivKonrad [email protected] BI episodes:BI 027 Ioana Marinescu & Konrad Kording: Causality in Quasi-Experim...
BI NMA 02: Dynamical Systems Panel
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Panelists: Adrienne [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 054 Kanaka Rajan: How Do We Switch Behaviors? This ...
BI NMA 01: Machine Learning Panel
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Panelists: Athena Akrami: @AthenaAkrami.Demba Ba.Gunnar Blohm: @GunnarBlohm.Kunlin Wei. This is the first in a series of panel discussions in co...
BI 110 Catherine Stinson and Jessica Thompson: Neuro-AI Explanation
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine, Jess, and I use some of the ideas from their recent papers to discuss how different types of explanations in neuroscience and AI could be u...
BI 109 Mark Bickhard: Interactivism
26 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mark and I discuss a wide range of topics surrounding his Interactivism framework for explaining cognition. Interactivism stems from Mark's account of...
BI 108 Grace Lindsay: Models of the Mind
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Grace's websiteTwitter: @neurograce.Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain.We ta...
BI 107 Steve Fleming: Know Thyself
06 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Steve and I discuss many topics from his new book Know Thyself: The Science of Self-Awareness. The book covers the full range of what we know about me...
BI 106 Jacqueline Gottlieb and Robert Wilson: Deep Curiosity
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jackie and Bob discuss their research and thinking about curiosity. Jackie's background is studying decision making and attention, recording neuro...
BI 105 Sanjeev Arora: Off the Convex Path
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sanjeev and I discuss some of the progress toward understanding how deep learning works, specially under previous assumptions it wouldn't or shouldn't...
BI 104 John Kounios and David Rosen: Creativity, Expertise, Insight
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is creativity? How do we measure it? How do our brains implement it, and how might AI?Those are some of the questions John, David, and I discuss....
BI 103 Randal Koene and Ken Hayworth: The Road to Mind Uploading
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Randal, Ken, and I discuss a host of topics around the future goal of uploading our minds into non-brain systems, to continue our mental lives and exp...
BI 102 Mark Humphries: What Is It Like To Be A Spike?
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mark and I discuss his book, The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds. It chronicles how a series of action potentials fire through...
BI 101 Steve Potter: Motivating Brains In and Out of Dishes
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Steve and I discuss his book, How to Motivate Your Students to Love Learning, which is both a memoir and a guide for teachers and students to optimize...
BI 100.6 Special: Do We Have the Right Vocabulary and Concepts?
28 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We made it to the last bit of our 100th episode celebration. These have been super fun for me, and I hope you've enjoyed the collections as well. If y...
BI 100.4 Special: What Ideas Are Holding Us Back?
21 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the 4th installment of our 100th episode celebration, previous guests responded to the question: What ideas, assumptions, or terms do you think ...
BI 100.3 Special: Can We Scale Up to AGI with Current Tech?
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Part 3 in our 100th episode celebration. Previous guests answered the question: Given the continual surprising progress in AI powered by scaling u...
BI 100.2 Special: What Are the Biggest Challenges and Disagreements?
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this 2nd special 100th episode installment, many previous guests answer the question: What is currently the most important disagreement or challeng...
BI 100.1 Special: What Has Improved Your Career or Well-being?
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Brain Inspired turns 100 (episodes) today! To celebrate, my patreon supporters helped me create a list of questions to ask my previous guests, many of...