Neuroscience/AI - Can rats ‘think’? A paper by Chongxi Lai and colleagues on cognitive teleportation in rats [8 min read]

I haven’t written anything publically on neuroscience since before I entered government in early 2020. But a paper has just come out on Biorxiv that is the result of a project I’ve watched closely since its early days, and is one of the most impressive pieces of work I have ever seen in neuroscience. So I thought I’d write a short blog on the paper. The paper is titled ‘Mental navigation and telekinesis with a hippocampal map-based brain-machine interface’ by Chongxi Lai, Shinsuke Tanaka, Timothy Harris, and Albert Lee. Thanks for reading James W. Phillips' Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. I was at graduate school with Chongxi, the first author [twitter: @chongxi_lai]. I first remember discussing neuroscience with him by a lake on a student retreat, I think in 2015/6. I quickly thought he was probably the smartest and most creative neuroscientist that I’d met in my generation, along with someone I’d met in the UK. Anyway, it was at the lake side

I haven’t written anything publically on neuroscience since before I entered government in early 2020. But a paper has just come out on Biorxiv that is the result of a project I’ve watched closely since its early days, and is one of the most impressive pieces of work I have ever seen in neuroscience. So I thought I’d write a short blog on the paper. The paper is titled ‘Mental navigation and telekinesis with a hippocampal map-based brain-machine interface’ by Chongxi Lai, Shinsuke Tanaka, Timothy Harris, and Albert Lee. Thanks for reading James W. Phillips' Newsletter! Subscribe for free to re