Is it time for neuroscience to shift its focus from a computational mind to a navigating mind?

In this “Brain Inspired” episode, Paul Middlebrooks talks with Andrea Hiott, a philosopher and neuroscientist at Universität Heidelberg. In her new book, “Holding Paradox: A Navigational Approach to Mind and Consciousness & Other Gifts From the Hippocampus,” Hiott describes decades of two parallel threads of research on the hippocampus, one treating it as the seat of our memories and another treating it as a cognitive map we use to navigate the world and our thoughts. She argues it is time to move beyond thinking in dichotomies and instead think in paradoxes. Hiott presents her “navigational approach” to the mind as an alternative to the currently dominant computer metaphor.

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