BI 182: John Krakauer Returns… Again

BI 182: John Krakauer Returns… Again

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BI 182: John Krakauer Returns… Again
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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.

BI 181 Max Bennett: A Brief History of Intelligence

BI 181 Max Bennett: A Brief History of Intelligence

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BI 181 Max Bennett: A Brief History of Intelligence
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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 have payed off in the form of this book, A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains.

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

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

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BI 180 Panel Discussion: Long-term Memory Encoding and Connectome Decoding
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BI 179 Laura Gradowski: Include the Fringe with Pluralism

BI 179 Laura Gradowski: Include the Fringe with Pluralism

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BI 179 Laura Gradowski: Include the Fringe with Pluralism
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Laura Gradowski is a philosopher of science at the University of Pittsburgh. Pluralism, or scientific pluralism anyway, is roughly the idea that there is no unified account of any scientific field, that we should be tolerant of and welcome a variety of theoretical and conceptual frameworks, and methods, and goals, when doing science. Pluralism is kind of a buzz word right now in my little neuroscience world, but it’s an old and well-trodden notion… many philosophers have been calling for pluralism for many years. But how pluralistic should we be in our studies and explanations in science? Laura suggests we should be very, very pluralistic, and to make her case, she cites examples in the history of science of theories and theorists that were once considered “fringe” but went on to become mainstream accepted theoretical frameworks. I thought it would be fun to have her on to share her ideas about fringe theories, mainstream theories, pluralism, etc.

BI 178 Eric Shea-Brown: Neural Dynamics and Dimensions

BI 178 Eric Shea-Brown: Neural Dynamics and Dimensions

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BI 178 Eric Shea-Brown: Neural Dynamics and Dimensions
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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 dimensionality in neural networks… how to think about them, why they matter, how Eric’s perspectives have changed through his career.