In the early 1990s, British neuroscientist Karl Friston was poring over brain scans. The scans produced terabytes of digital output, and Friston had to find new techniques to sort and classify the massive flows of data. Along the way he had a revelation. The techniques he was using might be similar to what the brain […]
Author Archives: Stephen Francis Mann
Stephen Francis Mann is a guest researcher in philosophy at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.