Dear neuro, keep using the words you use. It’s ok even if wrong.

Dear philosophy, don’t listen to neuro too closely.

Love,
M.

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She’s right.

When you ask your boss The Yttri Lab to come on your podcast to discuss neurobehavior, and all he wants to talk about are octopuses and slime molds...
Kidding. Mostly.
Eric and I chat about how brains do behaviors and why that's not a simple question.

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AI needs these 13 brain principles, and to synthesize them. Like brains do.

Well, around 13. Probably more. Pete didn't count (I did). But we do discuss some of them.

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You know, Van Gogh's painting style is more akin to spiking networks than those other kinds. So basically Dan Goodman is the Van Gogh of networks. Hang on to those ears, Dan, and thanks for the discussion!

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John Krakauer returns... again.

The 2024 'list of grievances' episode - that he didn't know was happening!

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Thanks Jakob Troidl!

Max Max Bennett says the brain's major evolutionary changes are (to a first approximation) all about discovering new sources of learning. We take a pleasant stroll through the 5 breakthroughs he details in his book A Brief History of Intelligence.

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How can we decode a nontrivial memory from a static connectome?

That was the task for the excellent discussants during this panel:
Anton Arkhipov, Kording —-& Lab 🦖, Tomás Ryan, Srinivas Turaga,
Dong Song Lab, & Zhihao Zheng, intro by Kenneth Hayworth.

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Aspirational indeed. Come to enjoy, ask questions, and say hi if you’re around…

If you like Brain Inspired, you should check out Gaute Einevoll's new podcast about theoretical neuroscience, theoreticalneuroscience.no.

Despite being a physicist, Gaute might have some interesting guests and conversations, ha.

Strong start w Grace Lindsay & Christof Koch

Me: 'What should I say in my tweet?'
Daughter: 'Who was on your podcast?'
Me: David Poeppel.
Daughter: 'The guy who tells everyone to read old stuff? Just say he was on again. I mean... it's David Poeppel.'
Me: 'Good idea.'

David Poeppel is on again.

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I was late and sweaty and nonsensical.
Akseli was patient and dry and delightful.

Wonderful meeting you, Akseli Ilmanen - best fun I've had on a park bench in Berlin in a long time!

Indeterminate universe -> Organization -> Life -> Agency -> Free Will -> @WiringtheBrain

Kevin and I discuss ideas in (and beyond) his excellent new book, Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will.

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Alicia is a lot of fun to speak with. I'm trying to convince her to develop a 'constraintome'... it would be quite a challenge I think, but she wrote the book on it already, so...

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Just finished my first day of “work” in The Yttri Lab (i.e. admin and onboarding day). Super weird to be about 100 steps from my old PhD lab, and super excited to be here - thanks for taking this old chunk o’ coal aboard!

Justin Wood hatches chicks and AI agents to understand the origins and development of our intelligence - innate, learned, and everything in between.

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Looking forward to participating in this and moderating the panel. Register to join and come say hi...

bernstein-network.de/bernstein-conf…

David Glanzman changed his mind (a scientist changed their mind!!) about how we store long term memories.

We discuss why he now believes memories are stored in cell nuclei - not synapses.

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