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BI 064 Galit Shmueli: Explanation vs. Prediction
Galit and I discuss the independent roles of prediction and explanation in scientific models, their history and eventual separation in the philosophy of science,...
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BI 063 Uri Hasson: The Way Evolution Does It
Uri and I discuss his recent perspective that conceives of brains as super-over-parameterized models that try to fit everything as exactly as possible rather...
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BI 062 Stefan Leijnen: Creativity and Constraint
Stefan and I discuss creativity and constraint in artificial and biological intelligence. We talk about his Asimov Institute and its goal of artificial creativity...
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BI 061 Jörn Diedrichsen and Niko Kriegeskorte: Brain Representations
Jörn, Niko and I continue the discussion of mental representation from last episode with Michael Rescorla, then we discuss their review paper, Peeling The...
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BI 060 Michael Rescorla: Mind as Representation Machine
Michael and I discuss the philosophy and a bit of history of mental representation including the computational theory of mind and the language of...
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BI 059 Wolfgang Maass: How Do Brains Compute?
In this second part of my discussion with Wolfgang (check out the first part), we talk about spiking neural networks in general, principles of...