BI 067 Paul Cisek: Backward Through The Brain

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.

Paul's lab website.
(A few of) his papers we discuss or mention:
Books Paul recommends about these topics:
- The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception by Gibson.
- Brains Through Time: A Natural History of Vertebrates by Striedter and Northcutt.
- The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex: Anatomy, Evolution, And The Origin Of Insight by Passingham and Wise.
- The Evolution of Memory Systems: Ancestors, Anatomy, and Adaptations by Murray, Wise, and Graham.
- The ancient origins of consciousness:How the brain created experience by Feinberg and Mallatt.
- Catching Ourselves in the Act: Situated Activity, Interactive Emergence, Evolution, and Human Thought by Hendriks-Jansen.
In case, like me, you didn’t know what an amphioxus is… here you go.

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