Frans Nordén
nordenneuro.bsky.social
Frans Nordén
@nordenneuro.bsky.social
PhD student in human olfaction @ Karolinska Institutet
Reposted by Frans Nordén
Here's the schedule for the MIT Consciousness Club this year: sites.google.com/view/mit-con.... I'm looking forward to it! (Rooms will be announced soon; and we're currently working on a zoom option for those who would like to join online)
MIT Consciousness Club
The MIT Consciousness Club aims to foster interdisciplinary research on consciousness at MIT and in the broader Boston area by organizing a monthly event featuring an expert talk on consciousness foll...
sites.google.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Reposted by Frans Nordén
What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a paper out in @natmachintell.nature.com led by @florianmahner.bsky.social & @lukasmut.bsky.social, w/ Umut Güclü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Dimensions underlying the representational alignment of deep neural networks with humans - Nature Machine Intelligence
An interpretability framework that compares how humans and deep neural networks process images has been presented. Their findings reveal that, unlike humans, deep neural networks focus more on visual ...
www.nature.com
June 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Reposted by Frans Nordén
Electric fields influences propagate nearly instantaneously, enabling large-scale organization. This mechanism is critical for guiding morphogenesis. Also for organizing thought.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#neuroscience
Revisiting Burr and Northrop’s “The Electro-Dynamic Theory of Life” (1935) - Biological Theory
Harold Saxton Burr was a biologist working throughout the 1930s–1950s on an important set of problems related to biological organization and the origin of complex living forms. He was a profound think...
link.springer.com
January 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM