Brain Inspired

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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 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 interested in learning more about neuroscience and AI.

BI 213 Representations in Minds and Brains
Jun 4, 2025 – 02:07:09
BI 212 John Beggs: Why Brains Seek the Edge of Chaos
May 21, 2025 – 01:33:34
BI 211 COGITATE: Testing Theories of Consciousness
May 7, 2025 – 01:59:40
BI 210 Dean Buonomano: Consciousness, Time, and Organotypic Dynamics
Apr 22, 2025 – 01:50:33
BI 209 Aran Nayebi: The NeuroAI Turing Test
Apr 9, 2025 – 01:43:59
BI 208 Gabriele Scheler: From Verbal Thought to Neuron Computation
Mar 26, 2025 – 01:35:08
BI 207 Alison Preston: Schemas in our Brains and Minds
Mar 12, 2025 – 01:29:47
Quick Announcement: Complexity Group
Mar 5, 2025 – 00:06:47
BI 206 Ciara Greene: Memories Are Useful, Not Accurate
Feb 26, 2025 – 01:29:10
BI 205 Dmitri Chklovskii: Neurons Are Smarter Than You Think
Feb 12, 2025 – 01:39:05
BI 204 David Robbe: Your Brain Doesn’t Measure Time
Jan 29, 2025 – 01:37:37
BI 203 David Krakauer: How To Think Like a Complexity Scientist
Jan 14, 2025 – 01:46:03
BI 202 Eli Sennesh: Divide-and-Conquer to Predict
Jan 3, 2025 – 01:38:11
BI 201 Rajesh Rao: From Predictive Coding to Brain Co-Processors
Dec 18, 2024 – 01:37:22
BI 200 Grace Hwang and Joe Monaco: The Future of NeuroAI
Dec 4, 2024 – 01:37:11
BI 199 Hessam Akhlaghpour: Natural Universal Computation
Nov 26, 2024 – 01:49:07
BI 198 Tony Zador: Neuroscience Principles to Improve AI
Nov 11, 2024 – 01:35:04
BI 197 Karen Adolph: How Babies Learn to Move and Think
Oct 25, 2024 – 01:29:31
BI 196 Cristina Savin and Tim Vogels with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød
Oct 11, 2024 – 01:19:40
BI 195 Ken Harris and Andreas Tolias with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød
Oct 8, 2024 – 01:17:05
BI 194 Vijay Namboodiri & Ali Mohebi: Dopamine Keeps Getting More Interesting
Sep 27, 2024 – 01:37:21
BI 193 Kim Stachenfeld: Enhancing Neuroscience and AI
Sep 11, 2024 – 01:32:41
BI 192 Àlex Gómez-Marín: The Edges of Consciousness
Aug 28, 2024 – 01:30:34
BI 191 Damian Kelty-Stephen: Fractal Turbulent Cascading Intelligence
Aug 15, 2024 – 01:27:51
BI 190 Luis Favela: The Ecological Brain
Jul 31, 2024 – 01:41:03
BI 189 Joshua Vogelstein: Connectomes and Prospective Learning
Jun 29, 2024 – 01:27:19
BI 188 Jolande Fooken: Coordinating Action and Perception
May 27, 2024 – 01:28:14
BI 187: COSYNE 2024 Neuro-AI Panel
Apr 20, 2024 – 01:03:35
BI 186 Mazviita Chirimuuta: The Brain Abstracted
Mar 25, 2024 – 01:43:34
BI 185 Eric Yttri: Orchestrating Behavior
Mar 6, 2024 – 01:44:50
BI 184 Peter Stratton: Synthesize Neural Principles
Feb 20, 2024 – 01:30:47
BI 183 Dan Goodman: Neural Reckoning
Feb 6, 2024 – 01:28:54
BI 182: John Krakauer Returns… Again
Jan 19, 2024 – 01:25:42
BI 181 Max Bennett: A Brief History of Intelligence
Dec 25, 2023 – 01:27:30
BI 180 Panel Discussion: Long-term Memory Encoding and Connectome Decoding
Dec 11, 2023 – 01:29:27
BI 179 Laura Gradowski: Include the Fringe with Pluralism
Nov 27, 2023 – 01:39:06
BI 178 Eric Shea-Brown: Neural Dynamics and Dimensions
Nov 13, 2023 – 01:35:31
BI 177 Special: Bernstein Workshop Panel
Oct 30, 2023 – 01:13:54
BI 176 David Poeppel Returns
Oct 14, 2023 – 01:23:57
BI 175 Kevin Mitchell: Free Agents
Oct 3, 2023 – 01:46:32
BI 174 Alicia Juarrero: Context Changes Everything
Sep 13, 2023 – 01:45:00
BI 173 Justin Wood: Origins of Visual Intelligence
Aug 30, 2023 – 01:35:45
BI 172 David Glanzman: Memory All The Way Down
Aug 7, 2023 – 01:30:58
BI 171 Mike Frank: Early Language and Cognition
Jul 22, 2023 – 01:24:40
BI 170 Ali Mohebi: Starting a Research Lab
Jul 11, 2023 – 01:17:15
BI 169 Andrea Martin: Neural Dynamics and Language
Jun 28, 2023 – 01:41:30
BI 168 Frauke Sandig and Eric Black w Alex Gomez-Marin: AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness
Jun 2, 2023 – 01:54:42
BI 167 Panayiota Poirazi: AI Brains Need Dendrites
May 27, 2023 – 01:27:43
BI 166 Nick Enfield: Language vs. Reality
May 9, 2023 – 01:27:12
BI 165 Jeffrey Bowers: Psychology Gets No Respect
Apr 12, 2023 – 01:38:45

Recent Reviews

SAARKÉSH

NEURO-AI course : does it work???

Enrolled in the course that is being advertised currently with the promotion. Sadly, all I have received is just an invoice, no login info or other info on how to get started! Furthermore, m stuck with no support option! Dump your web host Paul!
oystersandsauce

Sincere and Personal

This is clearly a podcast built out of passion for a deep and important topic, the topic of who we are, what underlies our cognition, how do we build and understand cognition
Navmanp

Episode 037 and below missing

Wanted to watch Sam Gershman’s Free Energy Principle episode, but found that all episodes below BI038 are missing.
Another Gamer Person

Stop feeding responses

It would be nice if the interviewer asked more open-ended questions and stopped injecting his expectations of the person’s experience.
Abder E

Amazing insights

Wow the creativity episode was amazing!!! Thank you for sharing this valuable knowledge
neurocurious

Excellent host, great topics, and expert guests

The host really adds value to the discussions, while letting the guests shine.
MahonriM€

Incredible

I am so grateful this podcast exists—I get to listen to experts on exactly my research interests. The show is well done in general, which is just icing on the cake.
celsius5

Engaging interviews with leading neuroscience experts

The Brain Inspired podcast continues to deliver high quality content at the intersection of neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Complex topics are tackle at ease and pull in the audience at all levels of expertise. The casual style and personal touch give any complex topic a needed touch of familiarity. I walk away informed every time and come back more. Never disappointed. Kudos on a great format and the relentless pursue of the amazing.
adam_neuro

Good for professional neuroscientists

I’m a neuroscience professor at an R1 university, and this seems like conversations my colleagues and I might have. I can’t really tolerate more “pop” podcasts on brain stuff because of the inaccuracies, but this one is spot on.
fortyn

Something to think about.

I am an interested layman of AI and brain science. This podcast is sometimes way over my head but still extremely interesting to me. I like the quiet no-hype, no-nonsense presentation of Paul Middlebrook. I am currently only at the fourth episode and hope it continues in the same vein. Recommended for anyone with a functioning and curious brain.
a e s t h e t i c s l a v

Great In-Depth Discussions

I’m a third year undergraduate psychology student interested in pursuing neuroscience in grad school. This is one of the most informative and enjoyable podcasts that I listen to. Always feels like I come out on the other end of an episode with a new insight or perspective. I particularly appreciate the emphasis that the host places on the more philosophically difficult questions that many professionals in the field prefer to avoid, such as the relationship between consciousness and cognition. I recommend this to anyone interested in psychology, neuroscience, or AI.
Pt0r

One of the best

This is one of my favorite podcasts, and one of the 2 or 3 I support financially. Nicely produced, good length, and plenty of depth without being incomprehensible (usually!) I’d rather have the depth though. I am not personally a researcher but intensely follow this topic as a layperson. Thanks for the podcast and keep it up!
EricKenjiLee

Excellent show; All-star guests

So glad I found this show! The biggest scientists in the field are featured here and the discussions are intelligent yet accessible for non-specialists.
Vssvbhv

Excellent show, inquisitive host

Great show if you’re interested in neuroscience and AI. The host asks really interesting questions that allows the guests to open up about their research in a fun and informative manner.