Romain and I discuss his theoretical/philosophical work examining how neuroscientists rampantly misuse the word "code" when making claims about information processing in brains. We talk about the coding metaphor, various notions of information, the different roles and facets of mental representation, perceptual invariance, subjective physics, process versus substance metaphysics, and the experience of writing a Behavior and Brain Sciences article (spoiler: it's a demanding yet rewarding experience).
In this second part of my discussion with Wolfgang (check out the first part), we talk about spiking neural networks in general, principles of...
Show notes: Visit Rafal’s Lab Website. Rafal’s papers we discuss: Theories of Error Back-Propagation in the Brain. An Approximation of the Error Backpropagation Algorithm...
Support the show on Patreon for almost nothing. I speak with Tom Griffiths about his “resource-rational framework”, inspired by Herb Simon's bounded rationality and...
