Topic: computational property

John Beggs reviews the critical-brain hypothesis and the proposal that neural activity operates near a transition between ordered and chaotic regimes. He discusses information processing, dynamic range, measurement methods, experimental evidence, criticisms and the question of whether criticality is a distinctive computational property of brains or part of a broader natural phenomenon.

Dean Buonomano discusses timing as a computational property of cortical circuits, including experiments training organotypic slices to predict temporal stimuli and replay sequences. The conversation also addresses the relationship between AI and neuroscience, agreements and tensions between physics and neuroscience about time, and his objections to integrated information theory as an account of consciousness.