Adam Marblestone
"Sometimes there is a tension in biomedicine: do we pursue basic science for curiosity’s sake, or do we focus on translational work... One way to connect the two is to consider a third path: what if we could accelerate our understanding of the basic science, via new technology, so that we could reduce the risk of translational work, and magnify the impact of the latter?" How to Study the Brain (The Chronicle Review) "We can’t simply ask 'what does this bundle of neurons do'? We have to ask, how might the brain work in principle, what clues can we gather from psychology and behavior... To a theoretical physicist, theory might look like elegant mathematical equations that quantitatively predict the behavior of a system. To a computer scientist, theory might mean the construction of classes of algorithms that behave in ways similar to how the brain processes information. Cognitive scientists have theories of the brain that are formulated in other ways..." Designing Tools for Assumption-Pr