Dean Buonomano explores the concept of time in neuroscience and physics

This “Brain Inspired” episode features Dean Buonomano, professor of neurobiology and psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, whose research focuses on how brains tell time via the dynamics within cortical circuits. He and Paul Middlebrooks discuss his recent work using cultured brain slices that conserve the tissue’s cellular organization to test whether timing is a fundamental computation in the cortex. They also examine Buonomano and physicist Carlo Rovelli’s attempt to bridge the concept of time in neuroscience and physics, why artificial intelligence will continue to progress without neuroscience and how integrated information theory requires a new physics to be scientifically testable.

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