In this second part of my conversion with Paul (listen to the first part), we continue our discussion about how to understand brains as feedback control mechanisms - controlling our internal state and extending that control into the world - and how Paul thinks the key to understanding intelligence is to trace our evolutionary past through phylogenetic refinement.
Thomas and I talk about what happens in the brain’s visual system when you see something versus imagine it. He uses generative encoding and...
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Jackie and Bob discuss their research and thinking about curiosity. Jackie’s background is studying decision making and attention, recording neurons in nonhuman primates during...