Brain Inspired
Brain Inspired explores the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, featuring interviews with experts in computational neuroscience, machine learning, cognitive science, and related fields. The podcast delves into how these disciplines inform each other, covering topics like deep learning, reinforcement learning, neural networks, and the philosophy of mind. Aimed at an audience with some background in the subject, it seeks to educate and inspire those interested in understanding intelligence.
Episodes
BI 242 Kathryn Nave: How Life Gets its Meaning and Intelligence
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BI 241 Johannes Jaeger: Agency and the Cyborg Myth
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Johannes Jaeger is Associate Faculty at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna. He's also a freelance researcher, a philosopher, and an educator. He's here today to educate us about some of the fundamental differences between living organisms and machines, like AI, and why we should care about those differe
BI 240 Cristopher Moore: Cognition and Computational Complexity
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BI 239 Nedah Nemati: Naturalistic Neuroscience and Lived Experience
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BI 238 James Harrison: Hypnosis as Mental Foraging
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James Harrison is a clinical hypnotist, and author of a new book, Mental Foraging and the Evolution of Memory: An Updated Model of Clinical Hypnosis. As you probably know, hypnosis carries some historical baggage, for example, in terms of how it could be used to manipulate people into having false memorie
BI 237 Ehud Ahissar: Consciousness and Perceptual Dualism
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BI 236 Liset de la Prida: Neurons, Ripples, and Manifolds
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BI 235 Romain Brette: The Brain, in Theory
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BI 234 Juan Gallego: The Neural Manifold Manifesto
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BI 233 Tom Griffiths: The Laws of Thought
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BI 232 How Should Neuroscience Integrate with Ecological Psychology?
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BI 231 Jaan Aru: Conscious AI? Not Even Close!
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BI 230 Michael Shadlen: How Thoughts Become Conscious
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BI 229 Tomaso Poggio: Principles of Intelligence and Learning
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BI 228 Alex Maier: Laws of Consciousness
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BI 227 Decoding Memories: Aspirational Neuroscience 2025
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BI 226 Tatiana Engel: The High and Low Dimensional Brain
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BI 225 Henk De Regt: Understanding in Machines and Humans
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BI 224 Dan Nicholson: Schrödinger’s What is Life? Revisited
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BI 223 Vicente Raja: Ecological Psychology Motifs in Neuroscience
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Vicente Raja is a research fellow at University of Murcia in Spain, where he is also part of the Minimal Intelligence Lab run by Paco Cavo, where they study plant behavior, and he is external affiliate faculty of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University. He is a philosopher, and he is a co
BI 222 Nikolay Kukushkin: Minds and Meaning from Nature’s Ideas
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BI 221 Ann Kennedy: Theory Beneath the Cortical Surface
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Ann Kennedy is Associate Professor at Scripps Research Institute and runs the Laboratory for Theoretical Neuroscience and Behavior.
Among other things, Ann has been studying how processes important in life, like survival, threat response, motivation, and pain, are mediated through subcortical brain are
BI 220 Michael Breakspear and Mac Shine: Dynamic Systems from Neurons to Brains
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BI 219 Xaq Pitkow: Principles and Constraints of Cognition
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BI 218 Chris Rozell: Brain Stimulation and AI for Mental Disorders
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We are in an exciting time in the cross-fertilization of the neurotech industry and the cognitive sciences. My guest today is Chris Rozell, who sits in that space that connects neurotech and brain research. Chris runs the Structured Information for Precision Neuroengineering Lab at Georgia Tech University
BI 217 Jennifer Prendki: Consciousness, Life, AI, and Quantum Physics
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BI 216 Woodrow Shew and Keith Hengen: The Nature of Brain Criticality
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BI 215 Xiao-Jing Wang: Theoretical Neuroscience Comes of Age
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BI 214 Nicole Rust: How To Actually Fix Brains and Minds
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BI 213 Representations in Minds and Brains
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BI 212 John Beggs: Why Brains Seek the Edge of Chaos
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BI 211 COGITATE: Testing Theories of Consciousness
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BI 210 Dean Buonomano: Consciousness, Time, and Organotypic Dynamics
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Dean Buonomano runs the Buonomano lab at UCLA. Dean was a guest on Brain Inspired way back on episode 18, where we talked about his book Your Brain is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time, which details much of his thought and research about how centrally important time is for virtually ev
BI 209 Aran Nayebi: The NeuroAI Turing Test
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BI 208 Gabriele Scheler: From Verbal Thought to Neuron Computation
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Gabriele Scheler co-founded the Carl Correns Foundation for Mathematical Biology. Carl Correns was her great grandfather, one of the early pioneers in genetics. Gabriele is a computational neuroscientist, whose goal is to build models of cellular computation, and much of her focus is on neurons.
We dis
BI 207 Alison Preston: Schemas in our Brains and Minds
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BI 206 Ciara Greene: Memories Are Useful, Not Accurate
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Ciara Greene is Associate Professor in the University College Dublin School of Psychology. In this episode we discuss Ciara's book Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember, co-authored by her colleague Gillian Murphy. The book is all about how human episodic memory works and why it works th
BI 205 Dmitri Chklovskii: Neurons Are Smarter Than You Think
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BI 204 David Robbe: Your Brain Doesn’t Measure Time
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BI 203 David Krakauer: How To Think Like a Complexity Scientist
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BI 202 Eli Sennesh: Divide-and-Conquer to Predict
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BI 201 Rajesh Rao: From Predictive Coding to Brain Co-Processors
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Today I'm in conversation with Rajesh Rao, a distinguished professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington, where he also co-directs the Center for Neurotechnology. Back in 1999, Raj and Dana Ballard published what became quite a famous paper, which proposed how predictive
BI 200 Grace Hwang and Joe Monaco: The Future of NeuroAI
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Joe Monaco and Grace Hwang co-organized a recent workshop I participated in, the 2024 BRAIN NeuroAI Workshop. You may have heard of the BRAIN Initiative, but in case not, BRAIN is is huge funding effort across many agencies, one of which is the National Institutes of Health, where this recent work
BI 199 Hessam Akhlaghpour: Natural Universal Computation
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BI 198 Tony Zador: Neuroscience Principles to Improve AI
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BI 197 Karen Adolph: How Babies Learn to Move and Think
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BI 196 Cristina Savin and Tim Vogels with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød
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BI 195 Ken Harris and Andreas Tolias with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød
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BI 194 Vijay Namboodiri & Ali Mohebi: Dopamine Keeps Getting More Interesting
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BI 193 Kim Stachenfeld: Enhancing Neuroscience and AI
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BI 192 Àlex Gómez-Marín: The Edges of Consciousness
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Àlex Gómez-Marín heads The Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Institute of Neuroscience in Alicante, Spain. He's one of those theoretical physicist turned neuroscientist, and he has studied a wide range of topics over his career. Most recently, he has become interested in what he calls the "edges o
BI 191 Damian Kelty-Stephen: Fractal Turbulent Cascading Intelligence
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Damian Kelty-Stephen is an experimental psychologist at State University of New York at New Paltz. Last episode with Luis Favela, we discussed many of the ideas from ecological psychology, and how Louie is trying to reconcile those principles with those of neuroscience. In this episode, Damian and I in
BI 190 Luis Favela: The Ecological Brain
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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, Louie presents his NeuroE
BI 189 Joshua Vogelstein: Connectomes and Prospective Learning
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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... the connectome of an in
BI 188 Jolande Fooken: Coordinating Action and Perception
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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 day out, and day in, and
BI 187: COSYNE 2024 Neuro-AI Panel
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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 panelists were Tony Zador,
BI 186 Mazviita Chirimuuta: The Brain Abstracted
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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, using models, and m
BI 185 Eric Yttri: Orchestrating Behavior
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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 enacting and shaping thos
BI 184 Peter Stratton: Synthesize Neural Principles
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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 particular - for example, he
BI 183 Dan Goodman: Neural Reckoning
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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 Goodman runs the Neural Reck
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. Things like
Whether brains actually reorganize aft
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 i
BI 180 Panel Discussion: Long-term Memory Encoding and Connectome Decoding
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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 episode 103. Ken helps
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 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 theo
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
BI 177 Special: Bernstein Workshop Panel
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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 the panelists. I hope you e
BI 176 David Poeppel Returns
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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 (perhaps) of the languag
BI 175 Kevin Mitchell: Free Agents
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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. He's back today t
BI 174 Alicia Juarrero: Context Changes Everything
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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 Constraints Crea
BI 173 Justin Wood: Origins of Visual Intelligence
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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 in Berlin!
Justin Wo
BI 172 David Glanzman: Memory All The Way Down
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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 until their j
BI 171 Mike Frank: Early Language and Cognition
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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 on early word lear
BI 170 Ali Mohebi: Starting a Research Lab
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In this episode I have a casual chat with Ali Mohebi about his new faculty position and his plans for the future.
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BI 169 Andrea Martin: Neural Dynamics and Language
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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 interested in understan
BI 168 Frauke Sandig and Eric Black w Alex Gomez-Marin: AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness
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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 our ever-critical
BI 167 Panayiota Poirazi: AI Brains Need Dendrites
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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 she thinks you sho
BI 166 Nick Enfield: Language vs. Reality
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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 Scientists. A central qu
BI 165 Jeffrey Bowers: Psychology Gets No Respect
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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 neural network mod
BI 164 Gary Lupyan: How Language Affects Thought
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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 with Ellie Pavlick,
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