Rodrigo and I discuss concept cells and his latest book, NeuroScience Fiction. The book is a whirlwind of many of the big questions in neuroscience, each one framed by of one of Rodrigo’s favorite science fiction films and buttressed by tons of history, literature, and philosophy. We discuss a few of the topics in the book, like AI, identity, free will, consciousness, and immortality, and we keep returning to concept cells and the role of abstraction in human cognition.
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Thomas and I discuss the role of recurrence in visual cognition: how brains somehow excel with so few “layers” compared to deep nets, how...
Show notes: Follow Dean on Twitter: @deanbuonoVisit his lab website at UCLA.The review we discuss: The Neural Basis of Timing: Distributed Mechanisms for Diverse...
In this second part of our conversation, (listen to the first part) David and I discuss his thoughts about current language and speech techniques...
