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 our conversation, (listen to the first part) David and I discuss his thoughts about current language and speech techniques...
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Megan and I discuss her work using metacognition as a way to study subjective awareness, or confidence. We talk about using computational and neural...