
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.
- 20 episodes
- Updated July 15
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Episodes20
July 15 · 1 hr 44 min
July 1 · 1 hr 37 minBI 241 Johannes Jaeger: Agency and the Cyborg Myth
June 17 · 1 hr 42 minBI 240 Cristopher Moore: Cognition and Computational Complexity
June 3 · 1 hr 53 minBI 239 Nedah Nemati: Naturalistic Neuroscience and Lived Experience
May 20 · 1 hr 46 minBI 238 James Harrison: Hypnosis as Mental Foraging
May 6 · 1 hr 42 minBI 237 Ehud Ahissar: Consciousness and Perceptual Dualism
April 22 · 1 hr 44 minBI 236 Liset de la Prida: Neurons, Ripples, and Manifolds
April 8 · 2 hr 11 minBI 235 Romain Brette: The Brain, in Theory
March 25 · 2 hr 1 minBI 234 Juan Gallego: The Neural Manifold Manifesto
March 11 · 1 hr 40 minBI 233 Tom Griffiths: The Laws of Thought
February 25 · 1 hr 53 minBI 232 How Should Neuroscience Integrate with Ecological Psychology?
February 11 · 1 hr 48 minBI 231 Jaan Aru: Conscious AI? Not Even Close!
January 28 · 1 hr 48 minBI 230 Michael Shadlen: How Thoughts Become Conscious
January 14 · 1 hr 41 minBI 229 Tomaso Poggio: Principles of Intelligence and Learning
Dec 31, 2025 · 1 hr 57 minBI 228 Alex Maier: Laws of Consciousness
Dec 17, 2025 · 1 hr 15 minBI 227 Decoding Memories: Aspirational Neuroscience 2025
Dec 3, 2025 · 1 hr 36 minBI 226 Tatiana Engel: The High and Low Dimensional Brain
Nov 19, 2025 · 1 hr 43 minBI 225 Henk De Regt: Understanding in Machines and Humans
Nov 5, 2025 · 1 hr 49 minBI 224 Dan Nicholson: Schrödinger’s What is Life? Revisited
Oct 22, 2025 · 1 hr 39 minBI 223 Vicente Raja: Ecological Psychology Motifs in Neuroscience