On models of the mind - with Grace Lindsay - #1

Grace Lindsay, author of 'Models of the Mind', discusses the history of electricity in neuroscience, limitations of pen and paper calculations, failed neuroscience papers, origins of AI and the perceptron, neural coding and information processing, hierarchy of feature extractors in the visual system, firing rate models and ring networks, different types of models in computational neuroscience, reinforcement learning, and challenges in theoretical neuroscience.