HeyJaredSentience
Dive into the mysteries of the mind with Daniel Toker, PhD (@the_brain_scientist). This podcast explores consciousness, brain disorders, artificial intelligence, and mental health, all in one place.
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18. Do Elephants Have Names? The Hidden Minds of Animals with Mickey Pardo, PhD (opens the original)
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What if we’ve been dramatically underestimating what it’s like to be another animal? In this episode of Sentience , animal cognition researcher Mickey Pardo, PhD takes us inside the minds of other animals—from woodpeckers that track relationships between other birds to elephants that appear to use name-like calls to address one another. We explore how scientists can investigate the private mental lives of animals, what the famous mirror test actually tells us about self-awareness, and why humans
17. Bruno Olshausen, PhD on how the brain compresses, sees, and makes sense of the world (opens the original)
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In this episode of Sentience , Bruno Olshausen, PhD, professor at UC Berkeley, tells the story of how he went from wanting to build brain-like robots to uncovering one of neuroscience's most surprising results. Early in his career, he and a collaborator showed that if you train a simple computer model to represent images as efficiently as possible, it spontaneously reinvents the same kind of visual "building blocks" found in real brains—a discovery almost nobody believed at first. Olshausen walk
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