Topic
neuroscience
- Brain-Computer Interfaces
When we think about brain-computer interfaces, why do we always jump to the chip-in-the-head? Or the wire dongle with an antenna behind our ear? The Larry Niven "wirehead)"? Maybe it's just a bandwidth thing. Aren't o…
- Weekend Reading: Attention, Hill Climbing, and Enforcing Culture
🧠 To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight For a long time, because attention seemed so intricately tied up with consciousness and other complex functions, scientists assumed that it was first and fo…
- Weekend Reading: Brain MRI, Flash Cards, and Movie Maps
🧠 7 Tesla MRI of a Human Brain This is one of the highest resolution scans ever performed on a human brain, at 100 micrometer resolution. Scroll down to see some awesome images. 👨🏻🏫 Anki Anki is an open source fr…
- Neuralink
Yesterday was Neuralink's unveiling of what they've been working on. Their team of engineers, neurosurgeons, and computer science experts are working on a "neural lace" brain-computer interface. Elon Musk announced th…
- The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
Most of the popular conversation around intelligence these days (at least in circles I follow) is about the artificial variety — AI, deep learning, neural networks, and the like. Neuroscientists Jeff Hawkins and his c…
- Watch Karl Friston Explain Free Energy
Neuroscientist Karl Friston is the world's leading authority on brain imaging science and on the forefront of our understanding of how brains actually work. He's the creator of the free energy principle, an idea that…
- Surfing Uncertainty
The predictive processing model is a cognitive framework for modeling how the brain synthesizes information from two channels: The "bottoms up" stream of raw data coming in through our senses for processing The "top d…
- Weekend Reading: Brains and Language, Hillshading in Blender, and Antifragility
🧠 Your Brain Needs 1.5 MB of Storage to Master Your Native Language "It may seem surprising but, in terms of digital media storage, our knowledge of language almost fits compactly on a floppy disk," the authors wrote…