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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.

  • 157 episodes
  • Updated July 15

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  • Oct 8, 2025 · 1 hr 28 min

    BI 222 Nikolay Kukushkin: Minds and Meaning from Nature’s Ideas

    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.

  • Sep 24, 2025 · 1 hr 43 min

    BI 221 Ann Kennedy: Theory Beneath the Cortical Surface

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Ann Kennedy is Associate Professor at Scripps Research Institute and runs the Laboratory for Theoretical Neuroscience and Behavior. Among other things, Ann h

  • Aug 27, 2025 · 1 hr 47 min

    BI 219 Xaq Pitkow: Principles and Constraints of Cognition

    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.

  • Aug 13, 2025 · 1 hr 46 min

    BI 218 Chris Rozell: Brain Stimulation and AI for Mental Disorders

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. We are in an exciting time in the cross-fertilization of the neurotech industry and the cognitive sciences. My guest today is Chris Rozell, who sits in that spa

  • Jul 16, 2025 · 1 hr 34 min

    BI 216 Woodrow Shew and Keith Hengen: The Nature of Brain Criticality

    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. Vi

  • Jul 2, 2025 · 1 hr 52 min

    BI 215 Xiao-Jing Wang: Theoretical Neuroscience Comes of Age

    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.

  • Jun 18, 2025 · 1 hr 33 min

    BI 214 Nicole Rust: How To Actually Fix Brains and Minds

    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.

  • Jun 4, 2025 · 2 hr 7 min

    BI 213 Representations in Minds and 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.

  • May 21, 2025 · 1 hr 33 min

    BI 212 John Beggs: Why Brains Seek the Edge of Chaos

    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.

  • May 7, 2025 · 1 hr 59 min

    BI 211 COGITATE: Testing Theories 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.

  • Apr 22, 2025 · 1 hr 50 min

    BI 210 Dean Buonomano: Consciousness, Time, and Organotypic Dynamics

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Dean Buonomano runs the Buonomano lab at UCLA. Dean was a guest on Brain Inspired way back on episode 18, where we talked about his book Your Brain is a Time Ma

  • Apr 9, 2025 · 1 hr 43 min

    BI 209 Aran Nayebi: The NeuroAI Turing Test

    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.

  • Mar 26, 2025 · 1 hr 35 min

    BI 208 Gabriele Scheler: From Verbal Thought to Neuron Computation

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Gabriele Scheler co-founded the Carl Correns Foundation for Mathematical Biology. Carl Correns was her great grandfather, one of the early pioneers in genetics.

  • Mar 12, 2025 · 1 hr 29 min

    BI 207 Alison Preston: Schemas in our Brains and Minds

    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. Vi

  • Feb 26, 2025 · 1 hr 29 min

    BI 206 Ciara Greene: Memories Are Useful, Not Accurate

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Ciara Greene is Associate Professor in the University College Dublin School of Psychology. In this episode we discuss Ciaras book Memory Lane: The Perfectly I

  • Feb 12, 2025 · 1 hr 39 min

    BI 205 Dmitri Chklovskii: Neurons Are Smarter Than You Think

    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.

  • Jan 29, 2025 · 1 hr 37 min

    BI 204 David Robbe: Your Brain Doesn’t Measure Time

    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.