Konrad Kording: Connectomics is Key to Understanding the Brain
KordingLab · x · 2026-08-29
In a podcast episode, UPenn Professor Konrad Kording discusses the intersection of causality, ML, and neuroscience. He argues that the best path to understanding the brain is to read the brain's wiring directly down to the molecular level and build compilers and simulations to comprehend its computations directly.
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