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The Emergent Mind

by Gaurav Suri

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Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 · January 26, 2026

Biology, technology and the future

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Explores how data-driven neural networks can create thoughts, emotions, and ideas — a mind — in both humans and machines, arguing that the concept of neural networks is key to understanding intelligence and introducing the idea of 'emergence'.

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