Brain Inspired
by Paul Middlebrooks
July 3, 2025 12:24 am
Neuroscience and artificial intelligence work better together. Brain inspired is a celebration and exploration of the ideas driving our progress to understand intelligence. I interview experts about their work at the interface of neuroscience, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, and more: the symbiosis of these overlapping fields, how they inform each other, where they differ, what the past brought us, and what the future brings. Topics include computational neuroscience, supervised machine learning, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, deep learning, convolutional and recurrent neural networks, decision-making science, AI agents, backpropagation, credit assignment, neuroengineering, neuromorphics, emergence, philosophy of mind, consciousness, general AI, spiking neural networks, data science, and a lot more. The podcast is not produced for a general audience. Instead, it aims to educate, challenge, inspire, and hopefully entertain those interested in learning more about neuroscience and AI.
Recent Episodes
BI 215 Xiao-Jing Wang: Theoretical Neuroscience Comes of Age
2 weeks agoBI 214 Nicole Rust: How To Actually Fix Brains and Minds
1 month agoBI 213 Representations in Minds and Brains
1 month agoBI 212 John Beggs: Why Brains Seek the Edge of Chaos
2 months agoBI 211 COGITATE: Testing Theories of Consciousness
2 months agoBI 210 Dean Buonomano: Consciousness, Time, and Organotypic Dynamics
3 months agoBI 209 Aran Nayebi: The NeuroAI Turing Test
3 months agoBI 208 Gabriele Scheler: From Verbal Thought to Neuron Computation
4 months agoBI 207 Alison Preston: Schemas in our Brains and Minds
4 months agoQuick Announcement: Complexity Group
5 months ago