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Mentioned in 4 episodes

The Brain Abstracted

Book • 2023
Author
Mazviita Chirimuuta

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 Tim Scarfe
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 Carrie Figdor
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 Mazviita Chirimuuta
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 Mark Vernon

Mentioned in 4 episodes

Mentioned by
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Tim Scarfe
 as highly influential in his thinking in 2025 and by
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Mazviita Chirimuuta
 in relation to leaky abstractions in neuroscience.
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Why Every Brain Metaphor in History Has Been Wrong [SPECIAL EDITION]
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Tim Scarfe
, encouraging listeners to purchase it.
106 snips
Abstraction & Idealization: AI's Plato Problem [Mazviita Chirimuuta]
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Mark Vernon
 as a prize-winning transdisciplinary philosophy book exploring oversimplification in neuroscience.
The confidence to be human in an age of AI. A conversation about the complexity of things with Mazviita Chirimuuta
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Carrie Figdor
 as the subject of the podcast interview, discussing her work on simplification in neuroscience.
M. Chirimuuta, "The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience" (MIT Press, 2024)

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