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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 n ...
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God's Plan For Your Wellbeing 5: Spiritual Wellbeing | Matt Summerfield
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"One of the teachers of religious law was standing there listening to the debate. He realized that Jesus had answered well, so he asked, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” Jesus replied, “The most important commandment is this: ‘Listen, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. And you must love the Lord your God wit…
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BI 098 Brian Christian: The Alignment Problem
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Brian and I discuss a range of topics related to his latest book, The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values. The alignment problem asks how we can build AI that does what we want it to do, as opposed to building AI that will compromise our own values by accomplishing tasks that may be harmful or dangerous to us. Using some of the sto…
How and why we must work WITH the poor and oppressed?By Zeo Church, Dawn Goodwin
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BI 097 Omri Barak and David Sussillo: Dynamics and Structure
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Omri, David and I discuss using recurrent neural network models (RNNs) to understand brains and brain function. Omri and David both use dynamical systems theory (DST) to describe how RNNs solve tasks, and to compare the dynamical stucture/landscape/skeleton of RNNs with real neural population recordings. We talk about how their thoughts have evolve…
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God's Plan For Your Wellbeing 4: Emotional Wellbeing | Paul Meacham
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"Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:6-7 (NLT)By Zeo Church, Paul Meacham
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God's Plan For Your Wellbeing 3: Physical Wellbeing | Alex Marini
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"Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body." 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NLT)By Zeo Church, Alex Marini
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BI 096 Keisuke Fukuda and Josh Cosman: Forking Paths
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K, Josh, and I were postdocs together in Jeff Schall’s and Geoff Woodman’s labs. K and Josh had backgrounds in psychology and were getting their first experience with neurophysiology, recording single neuron activity in awake behaving primates. This episode is a discussion surrounding their reflections and perspectives on neuroscience and psycholog…
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God's Plan For Your Wellbeing 2: The Wellbeing Mindset | Belinda Norrington
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Matthew 11:28-30 “Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live fre…
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BI 095 Chris Summerfield and Sam Gershman: Neuro for AI?
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It’s generally agreed machine learning and AI provide neuroscience with tools for analysis and theoretical principles to test in brains, but there is less agreement about what neuroscience can provide AI. Should computer scientists and engineers care about how brains compute, or will it just slow them down, for example? Chris, Sam, and I discuss ho…
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God's Plan For Your Wellbeing 1: Introduction | Matt Summerfield
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The idea of us knowing and experiencing well-being is rooted back in the original creation story. But we seem to have come so far from this. But that is not the end of the story. God has made a way for us to be restored into flourishing and well-being. So what is this story and how do we respond to it?…
2021 is the year of God's REBOOT, as Zeo steps in to our 40th year. So what does this mean? And how do we respond to it?By Zeo Church, Matt Summerfield, Matt Summerfield
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BI 094 Alison Gopnik: Child-Inspired AI
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Alison and I discuss her work to accelerate learning and thus improve AI by studying how children learn, as Alan Turing suggested in his famous 1950 paper. The ways children learn are via imitation, by learning abstract causal models, and active learning by implementing a high exploration/exploitation ratio. We also discuss child consciousness, psy…
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How To Have A Successful Year? | David Gentille
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No matter what comes against us in the year; God has our back. New year, new season and new hope + possibilities. Jeremiah 29:11 says God has good plans for us. We need to review our lives, plan and position ourselves to be blessed and be a blessing (Genesis 12:2).By Zeo Church
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BI 093 Dileep George: Inference in Brain Microcircuits
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Dileep and I discuss his theoretical account of how the thalamus and cortex work together to implement visual inference. We talked previously about his Recursive Cortical Network (RCN) approach to visual inference, which is a probabilistic graph model that can solve hard problems like CAPTCHAs, and more recently we talked about using his RCNs with …
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BI 092 Russ Poldrack: Cognitive Ontologies
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Russ and I discuss cognitive ontologies – the “parts” of the mind and their relations – as an ongoing dilemma of how to map onto each other what we know about brains and what we know about minds. We talk about whether we have the right ontology now, how he uses both top-down and data-driven approaches to analyze and refine current ontologies, and h…
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The Christmas Story: “Do Not Be Afraid, This Is Good News For Everyone, Everywhere” | Belinda Norrington
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The rawness and untidiness of the real circumstances of the Christmas Story over 2000 years ago means that all our complex feelings and experiences are welcomed in to the presence of God. “Do not be afraid” the angel over Bethlehem proclaimed, “I bring good news for everyone, everywhere”. Today’s sermon explores what that good news is and how we ca…
I looked at the background to advent and how Jesus tells us that we need to be ready for his second coming.By Phil Jackson, Zeo Church
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BI 091 Carsen Stringer: Understanding 40,000 Neurons
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Carsen and I discuss how she uses 2-photon calcium imaging data from over 10,000 neurons to understand the information processing of such large neural population activity. We talk about the tools she makes and uses to analyze the data, and the type of high-dimensional neural activity structure they found, which seems to allow efficient and robust i…
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Everyone Everywhere: Debating Jesus | Matt Summerfield
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What do healthy faith discussions look like?By Zeo Church, Matt Summerfield
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BI 090 Chris Eliasmith: Building the Human Brain
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Chris and I discuss his Spaun large scale model of the human brain (Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network), as detailed in his book How to Build a Brain. We talk about his philosophical approach, how Spaun compares to Randy O’Reilly’s Leabra networks, the Applied Brain Research Chris co-founded, and I have guest questions from Brad Aimone, …
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Everyone Everywhere: Being Light In The Darkness Of Suffering | Kate Middleton
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How can our example when we're going through suffering be a powerful example to others about the difference that Jesus makes in our lives?By Zeo Church, Kate Middleton
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Everyone Everywhere: Following God's Lead - Part IV: Reject Favourites | Jumoke Cox
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How do we face up to, and move on from, our prejudices (even unconscious) so that everyone has a chance to discover Jesus?By Zeo Church, Jumoke Cox
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BI 089 Matt Smith: Drifting Cognition
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Matt and I discuss how cognition and behavior drifts over the course of minutes and hours, and how global brain activity drifts with it. How does the brain continue to produce steady perception and action in the midst of such drift? We also talk about how to think about variability in neural activity. How much of it is noise and how much of it is h…
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Everyone Everywhere: Following God's Lead - Part III: Faith Is A Journey | Alex Marini
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Faith is a journey, not just an event - so how do we journey well with people with Jesus?By Zeo Church, Alex Marini
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BI 088 Randy O’Reilly: Simulating the Human Brain
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Randy and I discuss his LEABRA cognitive architecture that aims to simulate the human brain, plus his current theory about how a loop between cortical regions and the thalamus could implement predictive learning and thus solve how we learn with so few examples. We also discuss what Randy thinks is the next big thing neuroscience can contribute to A…
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Everyone Everywhere: Following God's Lead - Part II: Who Is Your Neighbour | Amy Summerfield
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How do we get close people as we explore faith, and why is it so important?By Zeo Church, Amy Summerfield
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Everyone Everywhere: Following God's Lead - Part I: Nudges From Heaven | Matt Summerfield
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How listen, and respond to, the nudges of God in our every day moments - even when they don't make sense? What do faith risks look like? The Gospel explodes across Samaria and starts to go to the ends of the Earth (through the Ethiopian Eunich)By Zeo Church, Matt Summerfield
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BI 087 Dileep George: Cloning for Cognitive Maps
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When a waiter hands me the bill, how do I know whether to pay it myself or let my date pay? On this episode, I get a progress update from Dileep on his company, Vicarious, since Dileep’s last episode. We also talk broadly about his experience running Vicarious to develop AGI and robotics. Then we turn to his latest brain-inspired AI efforts using c…
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Everyone Everywhere: Justice For All | John Draper
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The Good News message is not just powerful, it's practical - and it's committed to fight injustice whererver it finds it. How can we bring the light of God's justice, in to many dark places?By Zeo Church, John Draper
Ken and I discuss open-endedness, the pursuit of ambitious goals by seeking novelty and interesting products instead of advancing directly toward defined objectives. We talk about evolution as a prime example of an open-ended system that has produced astounding organisms, Ken relates how open-endedness could help advance artificial intelligence and…
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Everyone Everywhere: Carrying His Presence | Pete Gilbert
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What does it mean for us to be seen and known as people who carry the presence of Jesus, and what will be the impact of that?By Zeo church, Pete Gilbert
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Everyone Everywhere: Releasing The Supernatural | David Gentille
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What can we learn about seeing the power of heaven released to bring supernatural healing and transformation to people's lives?By Zeo Church, David Gentille
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BI 085 Ida Momennejad: Learning Representations
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Ida and I discuss the current landscape of reinforcement learning in both natural and artificial intelligence, and how the old story of two RL systems in brains – model-free and model-based – is giving way to a more nuanced story of these two systems constantly interacting and additional RL strategies between model-free and model-based to drive the…
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Everyone Everywhere: You've Been Sent | Kate Middleton
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Jesus has sent us into the world to be His body - being and bringing Good News through our words and actions.By Zeo Church, Kate Middleton
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Everyone Everywhere: Forgotten People In Forgotten Places | Carl Beech
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BI 084 György Buzsáki and David Poeppel
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David, Gyuri, and I discuss the issues they argue for in their back and forth commentaries about the importance of neuroscience and psychology, or implementation-level and computational-level, to advance our understanding of brains and minds – and the names we give to the things we study. Gyuri believes it’s time we use what we know and discover ab…
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Everyone Everywhere: This Is Our Moment | Matt Summerfield
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What is God saying to us through this current crazy moment (e.g. CV19, George Floyd) and how should we respond?By Zeo Church, Matt Summerfield
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BI 083 Jane Wang: Evolving Altruism in AI
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Jane and I discuss the relationship between AI and neuroscience (cognitive science, etc), from her perspective at Deepmind after a career researching natural intelligence. We also talk about her meta-reinforcement learning work that connects deep reinforcement learning with known brain circuitry and processes, and finally we talk about her recent w…
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BI 082 Steve Grossberg: Adaptive Resonance Theory
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Steve and I discuss his long and productive career as a theoretical neuroscientist. We cover his tried and true method of taking a large body of psychological behavioral findings, determining how they fit together and what’s paradoxical about them, developing design principles, theories, and models from that body of data, and using experimental neu…
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BI 081 Pieter Roelfsema: Brain-propagation
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Pieter and I discuss his ongoing quest to figure out how the brain implements learning that solves the credit assignment problem, like backpropagation does for neural networks. We also talk about his work to understand how we perceive individual objects in a crowded scene, his neurophysiological recordings in support of the global neuronal workspac…
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Moments With God - Intro: Spiritual Warfare | Matt Summerfield
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A prayerful and practical response.By Zeo Church, Matt Summerfield
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Moments With God Podcast: Spiritual Warfare | Matt Summerfield
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Wise up! Gear up! Pray up!By Zeo Church, Matt Summerfield
One of the amazing things about prayer is that it's a 2-way conversation - that we get to speak to God but also to hear from him too. But how do we hear God's voice? How do we we learn to listen, recognise God speaking to us, and build in practices that help tune us in to what God is saying to us?By Paul Rigby, Zeo Church
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BI 080 Daeyeol Lee: Birth of Intelligence
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Daeyeol and I discuss his book Birth of Intelligence: From RNA to Artificial Intelligence, which argues intelligence is a function of and inseparable from life, bound by self-replication and evolution. The book covers a ton of neuroscience related to decision making and learning, though we focused on a few theoretical frameworks and ideas like divi…
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Moments With God - Intro: Contemplative Prayer | Belinda Norrington
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Moments With God: Contemplative Prayer | Belinda Norrington
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BI 079 Romain Brette: The Coding Brain Metaphor
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Romain and I discuss his theoretical/philosophical work examining how neuroscientists rampantly misuse the word “code” when making claims about information processing in brains. We talk about the coding metaphor, various notions of information, the different roles and facets of mental representation, perceptual invariance, subjective physics, proce…
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Moments With God: Unanswered Prayer - When Heaven Is Silent | Matt Summerfield
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How do we respond when Heaven feels silent in response to our prayers?By Zeo Church, Matt Summerfield
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Moments With God: Unanswered Prayer - When God Says No | Matt Summerfield
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How do we respond when we get a NO from God for the longings of our heart?By Zeo Church, Matt Summerfield
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Moments With God - Intro: Intercession | David Gentille
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Luke 22:31-34 Acts 12 1/ intercession is about praying for others, standing on their behalf for God’s blessings, healing or protection. 2/ all are to embark into the habit of intercession because: - Jesus did it - it’s about bringing God’s will to pass. - it gives access to the deep things of God, - it’s a platform for spiritual empowerment and con…
