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).
Follow Julie on Twitter: @julie_grollier. Check out Julie’s website, with links to papers and lots of good summaries of things we discuss, like Memristors,...
Matt and I discuss how cognition and behavior drifts over the course of minutes and hours, and how global brain activity drifts with it....
What is creativity? How do we measure it? How do our brains implement it, and how might AI?Those are some of the questions John,...
