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John Krakauer

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. David and John discuss some of the concepts from their recent paper Two Views on the Cognitive Brain, in which they argue the recent population-based dynamical systems approach is a promising route to understanding brain activity underpinning higher cognition. We discuss mental representations, the kinds of dynamical objects being used for explanation, and much more, including David's perspectives as a practicing neuroscientist and philosopher. David's webpage.John's Lab.Twitter: David: @DLBarackJohn: @blamlabPaper: Two Views on the Cognitive Brain.John's previous episodes:BI 025 John Krakauer: Understanding CognitionBI 077 David and John Krakauer: Part 1BI 078 David and John Krakauer: Part 2 Timestamps 0:00 - Intro3:13 - David's philosophy and neuroscience experience20:01 - Renaissance person24:36 - John's medical training 31:58 - Two Views on the Cognitive Brain44:18 - Representation49:37 - Studying populations of neurons1:05:17 - What counts as representation1:18:49 - Does this approach matter for AI?

<a href="https://www.patreon.com/braininspired" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a> to get full episodes and join the Discord community. David and John discuss some of the concepts from their recent paper <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-021-00448-6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Two Views on the Cognitive Brain</a>, in which they argue the recent population-based dynamical systems approach is a promising route to understanding brain activity underpinning higher cognition. We discuss mental representations, the kinds of dynamical objects being used for explanation, and much more, including David's perspectives as a practicing neuroscientist and philosopher. <ul><li><a href="https://presidentialscholars.columbia.edu/directory/david-barack" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David's webpage.</a></li><li><a href="http://blam-lab.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">John's Lab.</a></li><li>Twitter: <ul><li>David: <a href="https://twitter.com/dlbarack" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@DLBarack</a></li><li>John: <a href="https://twitter.com/blamlab" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@blamlab</a></li></ul></li><li>Paper: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-021-00448-6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Two Views on the Cognitive Brain</a>.</li><li>John's previous episodes:<ul><li><a href="https://braininspired.co/podcast/25/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BI 025 John Krakauer: Understanding Cognition</a></li><li><a href="https://braininspired.co/podcast/77/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BI 077 David and John Krakauer: Part 1</a></li><li><a href="https://braininspired.co/podcast/78/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BI 078 David and John Krakauer: Part 2</a></li></ul></li></ul> Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 3:13 - David's philosophy and neuroscience experience 20:01 - Renaissance person 24:36 - John's medical training 31:58 - Two Views on the Cognitive Brain 44:18 - Representation 49:37 - Studying populations of neurons 1:05:17 - What counts as representation 1:18:49 - Does this approach matter for AI?

BI 113 David Barack and John Krakauer: Two Views On Cognition