BI 067 Paul Cisek: Backward Through The Brain

April 18, 2020 00:49:00
BI 067 Paul Cisek: Backward Through The Brain
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BI 067 Paul Cisek: Backward Through The Brain

Apr 18 2020 | 00:49:00

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Show Notes

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.

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