Paul Middlebrooks

Brain Inspired

Science EN ↓ 156 episodes

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,...

Author

Paul Middlebrooks

Category

Science

Podcast website

braininspired.co

Latest episode

Jul 1, 2026

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Episodes

BI 241 Johannes Jaeger: Agency and the Cyborg Myth 01.07.2026

Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Johannes Jaeger is Associate Faculty at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna. He's also a freelance researcher, a philosopher, and an educator. He's here today to educate us about some of the fundamental differences between living organisms and machines, like AI, and why we should care about those differences. W...

BI 240 Cristopher Moore: Cognition and Computational Complexity 17.06.2026

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. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership...

BI 239 Nedah Nemati: Naturalistic Neuroscience and Lived Experience 03.06.2026

Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . he Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership...

BI 238 James Harrison: Hypnosis as Mental Foraging 20.05.2026

Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . James Harrison is a clinical hypnotist, and author of a new book, Mental Foraging and the Evolution of Memory: An Updated Model of Clinical Hypnosis . As you probably know, hypnosis carries some historical baggage, for example, in terms of how it could be used to manipulate people into having false memories that...

BI 237 Ehud Ahissar: Consciousness and Perceptual Dualism 06.05.2026

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. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership...

BI 236 Liset de la Prida: Neurons, Ripples, and Manifolds 22.04.2026

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. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership...

BI 235 Romain Brette: The Brain, in Theory 08.04.2026

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. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership...

BI 234 Juan Gallego: The Neural Manifold Manifesto 25.03.2026

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. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership...

BI 233 Tom Griffiths: The Laws of Thought 11.03.2026

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. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership...

BI 232 How Should Neuroscience Integrate with Ecological Psychology? 25.02.2026

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. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership...

BI 231 Jaan Aru: Conscious AI? Not Even Close! 11.02.2026

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. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership...

BI 230 Michael Shadlen: How Thoughts Become Conscious 28.01.2026

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. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership...

BI 229 Tomaso Poggio: Principles of Intelligence and Learning 14.01.2026

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. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership...

BI 228 Alex Maier: Laws of Consciousness 31.12.2025

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. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership...

BI 227 Decoding Memories: Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 17.12.2025

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. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership...

BI 226 Tatiana Engel: The High and Low Dimensional Brain 03.12.2025

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. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership...

BI 225 Henk De Regt: Understanding in Machines and Humans 19.11.2025

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. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership...

BI 224 Dan Nicholson: Schrödinger’s What is Life? Revisited 05.11.2025

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. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership...

BI 223 Vicente Raja: Ecological Psychology Motifs in Neuroscience 22.10.2025

Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Vicente Raja is a research fellow at University of Murcia in Spain, where he is also part of the Minimal Intelligence Lab run by Paco Cavo, where they study plant behavior, and he is external affiliate faculty of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University. He is a philosopher, and he is a cognitive...

BI 222 Nikolay Kukushkin: Minds and Meaning from Nature’s Ideas 08.10.2025

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. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership...

BI 221 Ann Kennedy: Theory Beneath the Cortical Surface 24.09.2025

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 has been studying how processes important in life, like survival, threat response, motivation, and pain, are mediated through subcortical brain areas like t...

BI 220 Michael Breakspear and Mac Shine: Dynamic Systems from Neurons to Brains 10.09.2025

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. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership...

BI 219 Xaq Pitkow: Principles and Constraints of Cognition 27.08.2025

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. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership...

BI 218 Chris Rozell: Brain Stimulation and AI for Mental Disorders 13.08.2025

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 space that connects neurotech and brain research. Chris runs the Structured Information for Precision Neuroengineering Lab at Georgia Tech University, and h...

BI 217 Jennifer Prendki: Consciousness, Life, AI, and Quantum Physics 30.07.2025

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. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership...

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