Brain Inspired

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 intere

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Every guest on Brain Inspired

150 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Jie Mei
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   Joe Monaco
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   Johannes Jaeger

   BI 241 Johannes Jaeger: Agency and the Cyborg Myth · 2 episodes

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   John Beggs

   BI 212 John Beggs: Why Brains Seek the Edge of Chaos · May 2025

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   John Krakauer

   BI 182: John Krakauer Returns… Again · Jan 2024

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   Jolande Fooken

   BI 188 Jolande Fooken: Coordinating Action and Perception · May 2024

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   Joshua Vogelstein

   BI 189 Joshua Vogelstein: Connectomes and Prospective Learning · Jun 2024

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   Juan Gallego

   BI 234 Juan Gallego: The Neural Manifold Manifesto · Mar 2026

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   Justin Wood

   BI 173 Justin Wood: Origins of Visual Intelligence · Aug 2023

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    Karen Adolph

    BI 197 Karen Adolph: How Babies Learn to Move and Think · Oct 2024

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    Kathryn Nave

    BI 242 Kathryn Nave: How Life Gets its Meaning and Intelligence · Jul 2026

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    Keith Hengen
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    Ken Harris

    BI 195 Ken Harris and Andreas Tolias with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød · Oct 2024

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    Ken Hayworth
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    Ken Paller

    BI 133 Ken Paller: Lucid Dreaming, Memory, and Sleep · Apr 2022

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    Kim Stachenfeld

    BI 193 Kim Stachenfeld: Enhancing Neuroscience and AI · Sep 2024

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    Kohitij Kar

    BI 122 Kohitij Kar: Visual Intelligence · Dec 2021

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    Laura Gradowski

    BI 179 Laura Gradowski: Include the Fringe with Pluralism · Nov 2023

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    Lauren Ross

    BI 146 Lauren Ross: Causal and Non-Causal Explanation · Sep 2022

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    Liset de la Prida

    BI 236 Liset de la Prida: Neurons, Ripples, and Manifolds · Apr 2026

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    Luis Favela

    BI 190 Luis Favela: The Ecological Brain · Jul 2024

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    Luiz Pessoa

    BI 155 Luiz Pessoa: The Entangled Brain · Dec 2022

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    Mac Shine

    BI 121 Mac Shine: Systems Neurobiology · Dec 2021

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    Mandyam Srinivasan

    BI 134 Mandyam Srinivasan: Bee Flight and Cognition · Apr 2022

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    Marc Howard

    BI 139 Marc Howard: Compressed Time and Memory · Jun 2022

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    Marco Facchin

    BI 244 Marco Facchin: Philosophy and Science of Biological Brains · Aug 2026

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    Mariam Aly

    BI 156 Mariam Aly: Memory, Attention, and Perception · Dec 2022

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    Mark Bickhard

    BI 109 Mark Bickhard: Interactivism · Jun 2021

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    Mark Sprevak

    BI 114 Mark Sprevak and Mazviita Chirimuuta: Computation and the Mind · Sep 2021

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    Matthew Larkum

    BI 138 Matthew Larkum: The Dendrite Hypothesis · Jun 2022

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    Maxim Raginsky

    BI 247 Maxim Raginsky: A Control Theory View on Brains and AI · Oct 2026

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    Michael Breakspear

    BI 220 Michael Breakspear and Mac Shine: Dynamic Systems from Neurons to Brains · Sep 2025

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    Michael L. Anderson

    BI 152 Michael L. Anderson: After Phrenology: Neural Reuse · Nov 2022

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    Michael Shadlen

    BI 230 Michael Shadlen: How Thoughts Become Conscious · Jan 2026

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    Michael W. Cole

    BI 116 Michael W. Cole: Empirical Neural Networks · Oct 2021

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    Michel Bitbol

    BI 136 Michel Bitbol and Alex Gomez-Marin: Phenomenology · May 2022

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    Mike Frank

    BI 171 Mike Frank: Early Language and Cognition · Jul 2023

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    Nedah Nemati

    BI 239 Nedah Nemati: Naturalistic Neuroscience and Lived Experience · Jun 2026

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    Nick Enfield

    BI 166 Nick Enfield: Language vs. Reality · May 2023

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    Noah Hutton

    BI 147 Noah Hutton: In Silico · Sep 2022

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