Over the past two decades, neuroscience has made remarkable progress, driven by numerous methodological and theoretical advances—among which computational neuroscience stands out as a major contrib...
AGI between philosophy and profitability
OpenAI’s o3 and the debate over true intelligence On December 20, 2024, OpenAI revealed their new model o3, stating they are now exteremly near to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). ...
What is language really for?
Rethinking the purpose of language Language is often considered one of the distinctive cognitive abilities of complex organisms, particularly humans, who seem to exhibit unique forms of communicati...
The brain's joke : we strive to be mindless zombies
What is consciousness? The subject of consciousness has been an intriguing topic in the fields of science and philosophy for centuries. I am of the opinion that the most significant reason for the...
Can a psychoanalyst understand a patient?
Discomfortness about pyschoanalytic theories As a third-year resident psychiatrist, I am currently providing psychoanalytic psychotherapy to four of my patients. I have little experience with psyc...
Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization
Key Ideas Humans live in complex, ever-changing environments. However, experiences are rarely independent, and environments are constructed with a statistical structure as it’s backbone. Ther...
People construct simplified mental representations
Key Ideas Developed a clever maze navigation task consisted with multiple obstacles to understand how humans form task construals in their brain Theoretical details Task construals Let a tas...
Dream to control : Learning behaviors by latent imagination
Key Ideas Learns long-horizon behaviors from images purely by latent imagination; predicts both actions and state values in the latent space. Theoretical details Formulating Task Let us for...
This is how hippocampus learns states - 2
In the previous post, we reviewed how states are represented and learned through the entorhinal-hippocampal circuit. While sleeping or resting however, rodents do not literally ‘replay’ their exper...
This is how hippocampus learns states - 1
Despite the overwhelming victory of AlphaGo against human beings in 2016, artificial intelligence still does not replace human beings in many fields. Most artificial intelligence that has shown hum...