BI 066 Paul Cisek: Forward Through Evolution

April 15, 2020 01:34:11
BI 066 Paul Cisek: Forward Through Evolution
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BI 066 Paul Cisek: Forward Through Evolution

Apr 15 2020 | 01:34:11

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Show Notes

In this first part of our conversation, Paul and I discuss his approach to understanding how the brain (and intelligence) works. Namely, he believes we are fundamentally action and movement oriented - all of our behavior and cognition is based on controlling ourselves and our environment through feedback control mechanisms, and basically all neural activity should be understood through that lens. This contrasts with the view that we serially perceive the environment, make internal representations of what we perceive, do some cognition on those representations, and transform that cognition into decisions about how to move. From that premise, Paul also believes the best (and perhaps only) way to understand our current brains is by tracing out the evolutionary steps that took us from our single celled first organisms all the way to us - a process he calls phylogenetic refinement.

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