Liz and I discuss her work on cognitive development, specially in infants, and what it can tell us about what makes human cognition different from other animals, what core cognitive abilities we’re born with, and how those abilities may form the foundation for much of our other cognitive abilities to develop. We also talk about natural language as the potential key faculty that synthesizes our early core abilities into the many higher cognitive functions that make us unique as a species, the potential for AI to capitalize on what we know about cognition in infants, plus plenty more.
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Show notes: Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Artificial Cognitive Systems on Twitter. Artificial Cognitive Systems research group. The paper we discuss: Generative...
Hakwan, Steve, and I discuss many issues around the scientific study of consciousness. Steve and Hakwan focus on higher order theories (HOTs) of consciousness,...
Show notes: His new book, The Deep Learning Revolution: His Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute. His faculty page at UCSD. His first...
