Models of the Mind
by Grace Lindsay · first published 2021
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"The human brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses. For more than a century, a diverse array of researchers searched for a language that could be used to capture the essence of what these neurons do and how they communicate - and how those communications create thoughts, perceptions and actions. The language they were looking for was mathematics, and we would not be able to understand the brain as we do today without it. In Models of the Mind , author and computational neuroscientist Grace Lindsay explains how mathematical models have allowed s
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This story is told in part in Models of the Mind by Grace Lindsay (excellent read on neurobiology and it's echo in computer science: ML). Really interesting to read about.
on “The man who tried to redeem the world with logic” ↗…replay of the sharp emotions at the time the events occurred. So sleeping on it is a way to wash the crud off the occurrence before reexamining it with a little more objectivity. I read about this in Models of the Mind by Grace Lindsay. Great book.
on “Another Reason Why You Should Sleep on It Before Making an Important Decision” ↗…one book that does it all justice. On the other hand, there's been a flood of interesting books lately, so there's almost certainly something for you. Since you're on HN, you might like Grace Lindsay's Models of the Mind. It's about using math and physics to probe the brain, but it's a nice light read that focuses on analogies; no walls of impenetrable equations. If you like this, there are a ton of books that dive more…
on “Electrical stimulation can boost brain's willingness to engage in mental effort” ↗…but it is a technical manual for the mind. If you try to read it cover-to-cover, most of what you read is going to be meditation techniques that are months or years away from being useful to you, and models of the mind that are far removed from your current experiences. Like, feel free to read the whole thing if you want to, but be aware that it's akin to reading the C++ spec as a beginning programmer. The mind isn't…
on “The Remarkable Brain Waves of High Level Meditators [video]” ↗This is excellent. Since reading https://books.google.de/books/about/Models_of_the_Mind.html?... I've been expecting someone to start looking back into biology to try to move forward. I guess the poster is one of the authors. Kudos!
on “TopoNets: High performing vision and language models with brain-like topography” ↗