Thinking about how we think
Writing about games and the nature of intelligence for @riverheadbooks
Formerly @mit @ucberkeley @ucl @googledeepmind
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Oct 1, 2019 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Thread: I’m pleased to share my new paper, wherein we devised a novel optical brain machine interface (BMI) to investigate how the brain infers and controls a causal relationship between its activity and the outside world. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
The experience of agency is integral to our sense of self and responsibility, and its dysfunction in a number of psychopathologies can have devastating social effects.
Jan 15, 2019 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
It's a great honor to share this piece I wrote for @WIRED about two beautiful humans, Sonia Vallabh and Eric Minikel (@cureffi). They’re a married couple using science to save Sonia’s life--you can read all about their amazing quest in the article. wired.com/story/sleep-no…
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