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Brain Inspired — 155 episodes

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BI 240 Cristopher Moore: Cognition and Computational Complexity

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BI 239 Nedah Nemati: Naturalistic Neuroscience and Lived Experience

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BI 238 James Harrison: Hypnosis as Mental Foraging

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BI 237 Ehud Ahissar: Consciousness and Perceptual Dualism

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

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BI 235 Romain Brette: The Brain, in Theory

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BI 234 Juan Gallego: The Neural Manifold Manifesto

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BI 233 Tom Griffiths: The Laws of Thought

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BI 232 How Should Neuroscience Integrate with Ecological Psychology?

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

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BI 230 Michael Shadlen: How Thoughts Become Conscious

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BI 229 Tomaso Poggio: Principles of Intelligence and Learning

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BI 228 Alex Maier: Laws of Consciousness

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BI 227 Decoding Memories: Aspirational Neuroscience 2025

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BI 226 Tatiana Engel: The High and Low Dimensional Brain

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BI 225 Henk De Regt: Understanding in Machines and Humans

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

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BI 223 Vicente Raja: Ecological Psychology Motifs in Neuroscience

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

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BI 221 Ann Kennedy: Theory Beneath the Cortical Surface

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

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BI 219 Xaq Pitkow: Principles and Constraints of Cognition

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

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

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BI 216 Woodrow Shew and Keith Hengen: The Nature of Brain Criticality

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BI 215 Xiao-Jing Wang: Theoretical Neuroscience Comes of Age

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BI 214 Nicole Rust: How To Actually Fix Brains and Minds

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BI 213 Representations in Minds and Brains

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

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BI 211 COGITATE: Testing Theories of Consciousness

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BI 210 Dean Buonomano: Consciousness, Time, and Organotypic Dynamics

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BI 209 Aran Nayebi: The NeuroAI Turing Test

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BI 208 Gabriele Scheler: From Verbal Thought to Neuron Computation

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BI 207 Alison Preston: Schemas in our Brains and Minds

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Quick Announcement: Complexity Group

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BI 206 Ciara Greene: Memories Are Useful, Not Accurate

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BI 205 Dmitri Chklovskii: Neurons Are Smarter Than You Think

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BI 204 David Robbe: Your Brain Doesn’t Measure Time

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BI 203 David Krakauer: How To Think Like a Complexity Scientist

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BI 202 Eli Sennesh: Divide-and-Conquer to Predict

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BI 201 Rajesh Rao: From Predictive Coding to Brain Co-Processors

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BI 200 Grace Hwang and Joe Monaco: The Future of NeuroAI

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BI 199 Hessam Akhlaghpour: Natural Universal Computation

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BI 198 Tony Zador: Neuroscience Principles to Improve AI

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

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BI 196 Cristina Savin and Tim Vogels with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød

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

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BI 194 Vijay Namboodiri & Ali Mohebi: Dopamine Keeps Getting More Interesting

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BI 193 Kim Stachenfeld: Enhancing Neuroscience and AI

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BI 192 Àlex Gómez-Marín: The Edges of Consciousness

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BI 191 Damian Kelty-Stephen: Fractal Turbulent Cascading Intelligence

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BI 190 Luis Favela: The Ecological Brain

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BI 189 Joshua Vogelstein: Connectomes and Prospective Learning

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BI 188 Jolande Fooken: Coordinating Action and Perception

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BI 187: COSYNE 2024 Neuro-AI Panel

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BI 186 Mazviita Chirimuuta: The Brain Abstracted

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BI 185 Eric Yttri: Orchestrating Behavior

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BI 184 Peter Stratton: Synthesize Neural Principles

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BI 183 Dan Goodman: Neural Reckoning

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BI 182: John Krakauer Returns… Again

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BI 181 Max Bennett: A Brief History of Intelligence

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BI 180 Panel Discussion: Long-term Memory Encoding and Connectome Decoding

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BI 179 Laura Gradowski: Include the Fringe with Pluralism

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BI 178 Eric Shea-Brown: Neural Dynamics and Dimensions

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BI 177 Special: Bernstein Workshop Panel

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BI 176 David Poeppel Returns

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BI 175 Kevin Mitchell: Free Agents

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BI 174 Alicia Juarrero: Context Changes Everything

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BI 173 Justin Wood: Origins of Visual Intelligence

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BI 172 David Glanzman: Memory All The Way Down

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BI 171 Mike Frank: Early Language and Cognition

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BI 170 Ali Mohebi: Starting a Research Lab

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BI 169 Andrea Martin: Neural Dynamics and Language

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BI 168 Frauke Sandig and Eric Black w Alex Gomez-Marin: AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness

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BI 167 Panayiota Poirazi: AI Brains Need Dendrites

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BI 166 Nick Enfield: Language vs. Reality

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BI 165 Jeffrey Bowers: Psychology Gets No Respect

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BI 164 Gary Lupyan: How Language Affects Thought

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BI 163 Ellie Pavlick: The Mind of a Language Model

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BI 162 Earl K. Miller: Thoughts are an Emergent Property

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BI 161 Hugo Spiers: Navigation and Spatial Cognition

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BI 160 Ole Jensen: Rhythms of Cognition

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BI 159 Chris Summerfield: Natural General Intelligence

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BI 158 Paul Rosenbloom: Cognitive Architectures

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BI 157 Sarah Robins: Philosophy of Memory

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BI 156 Mariam Aly: Memory, Attention, and Perception

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BI 155 Luiz Pessoa: The Entangled Brain

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BI 154 Anne Collins: Learning with Working Memory

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BI 153 Carolyn Dicey-Jennings: Attention and the Self

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BI 152 Michael L. Anderson: After Phrenology: Neural Reuse

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BI 151 Steve Byrnes: Brain-like AGI Safety

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BI 150 Dan Nicholson: Machines, Organisms, Processes

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BI 149 William B. Miller: Cell Intelligence

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BI 148 Gaute Einevoll: Brain Simulations

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BI 147 Noah Hutton: In Silico

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BI 146 Lauren Ross: Causal and Non-Causal Explanation

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BI 145 James Woodward: Causation with a Human Face

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BI 144 Emily M. Bender and Ev Fedorenko: Large Language Models

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BI 143 Rodolphe Sepulchre: Mixed Feedback Control

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BI 142 Cameron Buckner: The New DoGMA

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BI 141 Carina Curto: From Structure to Dynamics

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BI 140 Jeff Schall: Decisions and Eye Movements

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BI 139 Marc Howard: Compressed Time and Memory

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BI 138 Matthew Larkum: The Dendrite Hypothesis

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BI 137 Brian Butterworth: Can Fish Count?

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BI 136 Michel Bitbol and Alex Gomez-Marin: Phenomenology

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BI 135 Elena Galea: The Stars of the Brain

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BI 134 Mandyam Srinivasan: Bee Flight and Cognition

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BI 133 Ken Paller: Lucid Dreaming, Memory, and Sleep

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BI 132 Ila Fiete: A Grid Scaffold for Memory

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BI 131 Sri Ramaswamy and Jie Mei: Neuromodulation-aware DNNs

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BI 130 Eve Marder: Modulation of Networks

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BI 129 Patryk Laurent: Learning from the Real World

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BI 128 Hakwan Lau: In Consciousness We Trust

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BI 127 Tomás Ryan: Memory, Instinct, and Forgetting

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BI 126 Randy Gallistel: Where Is the Engram?

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BI 125 Doris Tsao, Tony Zador, Blake Richards: NAISys

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BI 124 Peter Robin Hiesinger: The Self-Assembling Brain

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BI 123 Irina Rish: Continual Learning

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BI 122 Kohitij Kar: Visual Intelligence

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BI 121 Mac Shine: Systems Neurobiology

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BI 120 James Fitzgerald, Andrew Saxe, Weinan Sun: Optimizing Memories

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BI 119 Henry Yin: The Crisis in Neuroscience

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BI 118 Johannes Jäger: Beyond Networks

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BI 117 Anil Seth: Being You

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BI 116 Michael W. Cole: Empirical Neural Networks

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BI 115 Steve Grossberg: Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain

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BI 114 Mark Sprevak and Mazviita Chirimuuta: Computation and the Mind

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BI 113 David Barack and John Krakauer: Two Views On Cognition

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BI ViDA Panel Discussion: Deep RL and Dopamine

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BI 112 Ali Mohebi and Ben Engelhard: The Many Faces of Dopamine

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BI NMA 06: Advancing Neuro Deep Learning Panel

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BI NMA 05: NLP and Generative Models Panel

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BI NMA 04: Deep Learning Basics Panel

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BI 111 Kevin Mitchell and Erik Hoel: Agency, Emergence, Consciousness

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BI NMA 03: Stochastic Processes Panel

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BI NMA 02: Dynamical Systems Panel

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BI NMA 01: Machine Learning Panel

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BI 110 Catherine Stinson and Jessica Thompson: Neuro-AI Explanation

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BI 109 Mark Bickhard: Interactivism

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BI 108 Grace Lindsay: Models of the Mind

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BI 107 Steve Fleming: Know Thyself

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BI 106 Jacqueline Gottlieb and Robert Wilson: Deep Curiosity

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BI 105 Sanjeev Arora: Off the Convex Path

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BI 104 John Kounios and David Rosen: Creativity, Expertise, Insight

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BI 103 Randal Koene and Ken Hayworth: The Road to Mind Uploading

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BI 102 Mark Humphries: What Is It Like To Be A Spike?

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BI 101 Steve Potter: Motivating Brains In and Out of Dishes

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BI 100.6 Special: Do We Have the Right Vocabulary and Concepts?

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BI 100.4 Special: What Ideas Are Holding Us Back?

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BI 100.3 Special: Can We Scale Up to AGI with Current Tech?

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BI 100.2 Special: What Are the Biggest Challenges and Disagreements?

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BI 100.1 Special: What Has Improved Your Career or Well-being?

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BI 099 Hakwan Lau and Steve Fleming: Neuro-AI Consciousness

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BI 098 Brian Christian: The Alignment Problem