Gabriele Scheler reflects on the interplay between language, thought and AI

Gabriele Scheler, a theoretical neuroscientist and founder of the Carl Correns Foundation for Mathematical Biology, joins Paul Middlebrooks in this “Brain Inspired” episode. She describes her early interest in understanding how internal verbal thought—thinking in words—shapes our cognition. Middlebrooks and Scheler also discuss her experiences in the early days of computational neuroscience, what it’s like to start a research-focused nonprofit foundation, and a new single-neuron model she is developing to improve artificial intelligence.

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