Mandyam Srinivasan's guest appearances

Mandyam Srinivasan

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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community.  Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience  Srini is Emeritus Professor at Queensland Brain Institute in Australia. In this episode, he shares his wide range of behavioral experiments elucidating the principles of flight and navigation in insects. We discuss how bees use optic flow signals to determine their speed, distance, proximity to objects, and to gracefully land. These abilities are largely governed via control systems, balancing incoming perceptual signals with internal reference signals. We also talk about a few of the aerial robotics projects his research has inspired, many of the other cognitive skills bees can learn, the possibility of their feeling pain , and the nature of their possible subjective conscious experience. Srini's Website.Related papersVision, perception, navigation and 'cognition' in honeybees and applications to aerial robotics. 0:00 - Intro3:34 - Background8:20 - Bee experiments14:30 - Bee flight and navigation28:05 - Landing33:06 - Umwelt and perception37:26 - Bee-inspired aerial robotics49:10 - Motion camouflage51:52 - Cognition in bees1:03:10 - Small vs. big brains1:06:42 - Pain in bees1:12:50 - Subjective experience1:15:25 - Deep learning1:23:00 - Path forward

<a href="https://www.patreon.com/braininspired" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a> to get full episodes and join the Discord community. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/braininspired" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://braininspired.co/open/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience</a> <a href="https://braininspired.co/open/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Srini is Emeritus Professor at Queensland Brain Institute in Australia. In this episode, he shares his wide range of behavioral experiments elucidating the principles of flight and navigation in insects. We discuss how bees use optic flow signals to determine their speed, distance, proximity to objects, and to gracefully land. These abilities are largely governed via control systems, balancing incoming perceptual signals with internal reference signals. We also talk about a few of the aerial robotics projects his research has inspired, many of the other cognitive skills bees can learn, the possibility of their feeling pain , and the nature of their possible subjective conscious experience. <ul><li><a href="https://qbi.uq.edu.au/profile/613/srini-srinivasan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Srini's Website</a>.</li><li>Related papers<ul><li><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006291X20317940" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vision, perception, navigation and 'cognition' in honeybees and applications to aerial robotics</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> 0:00 - Intro 3:34 - Background 8:20 - Bee experiments 14:30 - Bee flight and navigation 28:05 - Landing 33:06 - Umwelt and perception 37:26 - Bee-inspired aerial robotics 49:10 - Motion camouflage 51:52 - Cognition in bees 1:03:10 - Small vs. big brains 1:06:42 - Pain in bees 1:12:50 - Subjective experience 1:15:25 - Deep learning 1:23:00 - Path forward

BI 134 Mandyam Srinivasan: Bee Flight and Cognition

Mandyam Srinivasan's research (University of Queensland, Brisbane) centers on vision and cognition of flying insects, especially bees. He discusses it with Paul Verschure and special guest Partha Mitra (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York).