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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…
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BI 246 Andrea Gambarotto: Cognition Requires Agency
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BI 245 Dan Levenstein: Neuro-AI, Dynamics, and Model Systems
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BI 244 Marco Facchin: Philosophy and Science of Biological Brains
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BI 243 Alison Barth: Learning as a Window to Cortex
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BI 242 Kathryn Nave: How Life Gets its Meaning and Intelligence
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BI 241 Johannes Jaeger: Agency and the Cyborg Myth
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BI 240 Cristopher Moore: Cognition and Computational Complexity
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BI 239 Nedah Nemati: Naturalistic Neuroscience and Lived Experience
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BI 238 James Harrison: Hypnosis as Mental Foraging
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BI 237 Ehud Ahissar: Consciousness and Perceptual Dualism
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BI 236 Liset de la Prida: Neurons, Ripples, and Manifolds
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BI 235 Romain Brette: The Brain, in Theory
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BI 234 Juan Gallego: The Neural Manifold Manifesto
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BI 233 Tom Griffiths: The Laws of Thought
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BI 232 How Should Neuroscience Integrate with Ecological Psychology?
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BI 231 Jaan Aru: Conscious AI? Not Even Close!
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BI 230 Michael Shadlen: How Thoughts Become Conscious
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BI 229 Tomaso Poggio: Principles of Intelligence and Learning
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BI 228 Alex Maier: Laws of Consciousness
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BI 227 Decoding Memories: Aspirational Neuroscience 2025
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BI 226 Tatiana Engel: The High and Low Dimensional Brain
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BI 225 Henk De Regt: Understanding in Machines and Humans
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BI 224 Dan Nicholson: Schrödinger’s What is Life? Revisited
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BI 223 Vicente Raja: Ecological Psychology Motifs in Neuroscience
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BI 222 Nikolay Kukushkin: Minds and Meaning from Nature’s Ideas
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BI 221 Ann Kennedy: Theory Beneath the Cortical Surface
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BI 220 Michael Breakspear and Mac Shine: Dynamic Systems from Neurons to Brains
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BI 219 Xaq Pitkow: Principles and Constraints of Cognition
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BI 218 Chris Rozell: Brain Stimulation and AI for Mental Disorders
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BI 217 Jennifer Prendki: Consciousness, Life, AI, and Quantum Physics
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BI 216 Woodrow Shew and Keith Hengen: The Nature of Brain Criticality
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BI 215 Xiao-Jing Wang: Theoretical Neuroscience Comes of Age
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BI 214 Nicole Rust: How To Actually Fix Brains and Minds
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BI 213 Representations in Minds and Brains
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BI 212 John Beggs: Why Brains Seek the Edge of Chaos
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BI 211 COGITATE: Testing Theories of Consciousness
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BI 210 Dean Buonomano: Consciousness, Time, and Organotypic Dynamics
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BI 209 Aran Nayebi: The NeuroAI Turing Test
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BI 208 Gabriele Scheler: From Verbal Thought to Neuron Computation
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BI 207 Alison Preston: Schemas in our Brains and Minds
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Quick Announcement: Complexity Group
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BI 206 Ciara Greene: Memories Are Useful, Not Accurate
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BI 205 Dmitri Chklovskii: Neurons Are Smarter Than You Think
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BI 204 David Robbe: Your Brain Doesn’t Measure Time
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BI 203 David Krakauer: How To Think Like a Complexity Scientist
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BI 202 Eli Sennesh: Divide-and-Conquer to Predict
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BI 201 Rajesh Rao: From Predictive Coding to Brain Co-Processors
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BI 200 Grace Hwang and Joe Monaco: The Future of NeuroAI
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BI 199 Hessam Akhlaghpour: Natural Universal Computation
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BI 198 Tony Zador: Neuroscience Principles to Improve AI
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BI 197 Karen Adolph: How Babies Learn to Move and Think
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BI 196 Cristina Savin and Tim Vogels with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød
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BI 195 Ken Harris and Andreas Tolias with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød
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BI 194 Vijay Namboodiri & Ali Mohebi: Dopamine Keeps Getting More Interesting
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BI 193 Kim Stachenfeld: Enhancing Neuroscience and AI
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BI 192 Àlex Gómez-Marín: The Edges of Consciousness
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BI 191 Damian Kelty-Stephen: Fractal Turbulent Cascading Intelligence
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BI 190 Luis Favela: The Ecological Brain
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BI 189 Joshua Vogelstein: Connectomes and Prospective Learning
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BI 188 Jolande Fooken: Coordinating Action and Perception
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BI 187: COSYNE 2024 Neuro-AI Panel
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BI 186 Mazviita Chirimuuta: The Brain Abstracted
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BI 185 Eric Yttri: Orchestrating Behavior
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BI 184 Peter Stratton: Synthesize Neural Principles
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BI 183 Dan Goodman: Neural Reckoning
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BI 182: John Krakauer Returns… Again
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BI 181 Max Bennett: A Brief History of Intelligence
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BI 180 Panel Discussion: Long-term Memory Encoding and Connectome Decoding
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BI 179 Laura Gradowski: Include the Fringe with Pluralism
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BI 178 Eric Shea-Brown: Neural Dynamics and Dimensions
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BI 177 Special: Bernstein Workshop Panel
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BI 176 David Poeppel Returns
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BI 175 Kevin Mitchell: Free Agents
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BI 174 Alicia Juarrero: Context Changes Everything
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BI 173 Justin Wood: Origins of Visual Intelligence
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BI 172 David Glanzman: Memory All The Way Down
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BI 171 Mike Frank: Early Language and Cognition
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BI 170 Ali Mohebi: Starting a Research Lab
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BI 169 Andrea Martin: Neural Dynamics and Language
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BI 168 Frauke Sandig and Eric Black w Alex Gomez-Marin: AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness
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BI 167 Panayiota Poirazi: AI Brains Need Dendrites
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BI 166 Nick Enfield: Language vs. Reality
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BI 165 Jeffrey Bowers: Psychology Gets No Respect
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BI 164 Gary Lupyan: How Language Affects Thought
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BI 163 Ellie Pavlick: The Mind of a Language Model
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BI 162 Earl K. Miller: Thoughts are an Emergent Property
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BI 161 Hugo Spiers: Navigation and Spatial Cognition
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BI 160 Ole Jensen: Rhythms of Cognition
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BI 159 Chris Summerfield: Natural General Intelligence
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BI 158 Paul Rosenbloom: Cognitive Architectures
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BI 157 Sarah Robins: Philosophy of Memory
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BI 156 Mariam Aly: Memory, Attention, and Perception
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BI 155 Luiz Pessoa: The Entangled Brain
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BI 154 Anne Collins: Learning with Working Memory
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BI 153 Carolyn Dicey-Jennings: Attention and the Self
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BI 152 Michael L. Anderson: After Phrenology: Neural Reuse
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BI 151 Steve Byrnes: Brain-like AGI Safety
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BI 150 Dan Nicholson: Machines, Organisms, Processes
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BI 149 William B. Miller: Cell Intelligence
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BI 148 Gaute Einevoll: Brain Simulations
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BI 147 Noah Hutton: In Silico
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BI 146 Lauren Ross: Causal and Non-Causal Explanation
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BI 145 James Woodward: Causation with a Human Face
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BI 144 Emily M. Bender and Ev Fedorenko: Large Language Models
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BI 143 Rodolphe Sepulchre: Mixed Feedback Control
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BI 142 Cameron Buckner: The New DoGMA
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BI 141 Carina Curto: From Structure to Dynamics
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BI 140 Jeff Schall: Decisions and Eye Movements
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BI 139 Marc Howard: Compressed Time and Memory
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BI 138 Matthew Larkum: The Dendrite Hypothesis
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BI 137 Brian Butterworth: Can Fish Count?
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BI 136 Michel Bitbol and Alex Gomez-Marin: Phenomenology
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BI 135 Elena Galea: The Stars of the Brain
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BI 134 Mandyam Srinivasan: Bee Flight and Cognition
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BI 133 Ken Paller: Lucid Dreaming, Memory, and Sleep
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BI 132 Ila Fiete: A Grid Scaffold for Memory
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BI 131 Sri Ramaswamy and Jie Mei: Neuromodulation-aware DNNs
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BI 130 Eve Marder: Modulation of Networks
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BI 129 Patryk Laurent: Learning from the Real World
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BI 128 Hakwan Lau: In Consciousness We Trust
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BI 127 Tomás Ryan: Memory, Instinct, and Forgetting
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BI 126 Randy Gallistel: Where Is the Engram?
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BI 125 Doris Tsao, Tony Zador, Blake Richards: NAISys
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BI 124 Peter Robin Hiesinger: The Self-Assembling Brain
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BI 123 Irina Rish: Continual Learning
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BI 122 Kohitij Kar: Visual Intelligence
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BI 121 Mac Shine: Systems Neurobiology
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BI 120 James Fitzgerald, Andrew Saxe, Weinan Sun: Optimizing Memories
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BI 119 Henry Yin: The Crisis in Neuroscience
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BI 118 Johannes Jäger: Beyond Networks
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BI 117 Anil Seth: Being You
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BI 116 Michael W. Cole: Empirical Neural Networks
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BI 115 Steve Grossberg: Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain
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BI 114 Mark Sprevak and Mazviita Chirimuuta: Computation and the Mind
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BI 113 David Barack and John Krakauer: Two Views On Cognition
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BI ViDA Panel Discussion: Deep RL and Dopamine
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BI 112 Ali Mohebi and Ben Engelhard: The Many Faces of Dopamine
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BI NMA 06: Advancing Neuro Deep Learning Panel
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BI NMA 05: NLP and Generative Models Panel
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BI NMA 04: Deep Learning Basics Panel
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BI 111 Kevin Mitchell and Erik Hoel: Agency, Emergence, Consciousness
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BI NMA 03: Stochastic Processes Panel
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BI NMA 02: Dynamical Systems Panel
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BI NMA 01: Machine Learning Panel
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BI 110 Catherine Stinson and Jessica Thompson: Neuro-AI Explanation
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BI 109 Mark Bickhard: Interactivism
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BI 108 Grace Lindsay: Models of the Mind
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BI 107 Steve Fleming: Know Thyself
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BI 106 Jacqueline Gottlieb and Robert Wilson: Deep Curiosity
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BI 105 Sanjeev Arora: Off the Convex Path
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BI 104 John Kounios and David Rosen: Creativity, Expertise, Insight
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BI 103 Randal Koene and Ken Hayworth: The Road to Mind Uploading
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BI 102 Mark Humphries: What Is It Like To Be A Spike?
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BI 101 Steve Potter: Motivating Brains In and Out of Dishes
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BI 100.6 Special: Do We Have the Right Vocabulary and Concepts?
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BI 100.4 Special: What Ideas Are Holding Us Back?
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BI 100.3 Special: Can We Scale Up to AGI with Current Tech?
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BI 100.2 Special: What Are the Biggest Challenges and Disagreements?
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BI 100.1 Special: What Has Improved Your Career or Well-being?
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BI 099 Hakwan Lau and Steve Fleming: Neuro-AI Consciousness
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BI 098 Brian Christian: The Alignment Problem
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