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Brain Inspired

Paul Middlebrooks

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.

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  • 23 episodes
  • fortnightly
  • Avg 1 hr 45 min
  • English

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  • Wednesday · 1 hr 58 min

    BI 246 Andrea Gambarotto: Cognition Requires Agency

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research.

  • September 2 · 1 hr 36 min

    BI 245 Dan Levenstein: Neuro-AI, Dynamics, and Model Systems

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research.

  • August 19 · 1 hr 29 min

    BI 244 Marco Facchin: Philosophy and Science of Biological Brains

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research.

  • August 5 · 1 hr 40 min

    BI 243 Alison Barth: Learning as a Window to Cortex

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research.

  • July 15 · 1 hr 44 min

    BI 242 Kathryn Nave: How Life Gets its Meaning and Intelligence

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research.

  • July 1 · 1 hr 37 min

    BI 241 Johannes Jaeger: Agency and the Cyborg Myth

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Johannes Jaeger is Associate Faculty at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna. Hes also a freelance researcher, a philosopher, and an educator. Hes here today to

  • June 17 · 1 hr 42 min

    BI 240 Cristopher Moore: Cognition and Computational Complexity

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research.

  • June 3 · 1 hr 53 min

    BI 239 Nedah Nemati: Naturalistic Neuroscience and Lived Experience

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. he Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. V

  • May 20 · 1 hr 46 min

    BI 238 James Harrison: Hypnosis as Mental Foraging

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. James Harrison is a clinical hypnotist, and author of a new book, Mental Foraging and the Evolution of Memory: An Updated Model of Clinical Hypnosis. As you pro

  • May 6 · 1 hr 42 min

    BI 237 Ehud Ahissar: Consciousness and Perceptual Dualism

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research.

  • April 22 · 1 hr 44 min

    BI 236 Liset de la Prida: Neurons, Ripples, and Manifolds

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research.

  • April 8 · 2 hr 11 min

    BI 235 Romain Brette: The Brain, in Theory

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research.

  • March 25 · 2 hr 1 min

    BI 234 Juan Gallego: The Neural Manifold Manifesto

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research.

  • March 11 · 1 hr 40 min

    BI 233 Tom Griffiths: The Laws of Thought

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research.

  • February 25 · 1 hr 53 min

    BI 232 How Should Neuroscience Integrate with Ecological Psychology?

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research.

  • February 11 · 1 hr 48 min

    BI 231 Jaan Aru: Conscious AI? Not Even Close!

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research.

  • January 28 · 1 hr 48 min

    BI 230 Michael Shadlen: How Thoughts Become Conscious

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research.

  • January 14 · 1 hr 41 min

    BI 229 Tomaso Poggio: Principles of Intelligence and Learning

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research.

  • Dec 31, 2025 · 1 hr 57 min

    BI 228 Alex Maier: Laws of Consciousness

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research.

  • Dec 17, 2025 · 1 hr 15 min

    BI 227 Decoding Memories: Aspirational Neuroscience 2025

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