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Berlin Radio Interview on the ‘Neurobiology of Artficial Intelligence’ (in German)

July 16, 2025

Berlin Radio (RBB) interview about the research in the Hiesinger lab and its connection to understanding information encoding in biological and artificial neural networks – the topic of The Self-Assembling Brain. The interview ‘Die Neurobiologie der Künstlichen Intelligenz’ (in German) is available here. A related online lecture ‘Neurobiology of Artificial Intelligence’ (recorded by IEEE Computational Intellgence Society, Dec. 2024, in…

Podcast on ‘Brain Inspired’ with Paul Middlebrooks

January 6, 2022

Paul Middlebrooks from braininspired.co: ‘Robin and I discuss many of the ideas in his book The Self-Assembling Brain: How Neural Networks Grow Smarter. The premise is that our DNA encodes an algorithmic growth process that unfolds information via time and energy, resulting in a connected neural network (our brains!) imbued with vast amounts of information from the “start”. This contrasts…

Podcast ‘The Self-Assembling Brain’ with Waseem Akhtar on Bridging the Gaps

November 8, 2021

Bridging the Gaps: A Portal for Curious Minds has released a 1-hour podcast in which Waseem Akhtar and Robin Hiesinger discuss the motivation and thesis of ‘The Self-Assembling Brain’. This is a wide-ranging discussion, starting with the history of neurobiologists arguing about the existence of neurons as physiological units that need to ‘wire up’, to the question: How does information…

Carne Esperta Podcast

September 5, 2021

A curious interview – by an Artificial Intelligence from the future, trying to understand humans. What can The Self-Assembling Brain tell us? Podcast available here: Google Podcasts Spotify