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John Krakauer has been on the podcast multiple times (see links below). Today we discuss some topics framed around what he's been working on and thinking about lately. Things like
- Whether brains actually reorganize after damage
- The role of brain plasticity in general
- The path toward and the path not toward understanding higher cognition
- How to fix motor problems after strokes
- AGI
- Functionalism, consciousness, and much more.

0:00 - Intro
2:07 - It's a podcast episode!
6:47 - Stroke and Sherrington neuroscience
19:26 - Thinking vs. moving, representations
34:15 - What's special about humans?
56:35 - Does cortical reorganization happen?
1:14:08 - Current era in neuroscience