Michael and I discuss the philosophy and a bit of history of mental representation including the computational theory of mind and the language of thought hypothesis, how science and philosophy interact, how representation relates to computation in brains and machines, levels of computational explanation, and we discuss some examples of representational approaches to mental processes like bayesian modeling.
Show notes:
Dileep and I discuss his theoretical account of how the thalamus and cortex work together to implement visual inference. We talked previously about his...
Mentioned in the show: Mark’s lab The excellent blog he writes on Medium The paper we discuss: An ensemble code in medial prefrontal cortex...
Sanjeev and I discuss some of the progress toward understanding how deep learning works, specially under previous assumptions it wouldn’t or shouldn’t work as...
