Attractors are usually not mechanisms - new blog post: open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
Attractors are usually not mechanisms
The mathematical objects can not be. And the "attractor models" have not been established as mechanisms in mammals
open.substack.com
July 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Attractors are usually not mechanisms - new blog post: open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
New blog-post on the logic of mechanistic modeling. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
The simple conceptual logic of Mechanistic models of brains
Brains, Networks, Neurons, Channels, Molecules, and Physics
open.substack.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
New blog-post on the logic of mechanistic modeling. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
Wrote a blogpost on why correlation often is note even approximately related to causation: medium.com/@kording/why...
Why Correlation Isn’t Causation in Brain Data
Why do correlations between brain signals not suggest causal relations?
medium.com
February 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Wrote a blogpost on why correlation often is note even approximately related to causation: medium.com/@kording/why...
If we could record all neurons we still would not know how they communicate: medium.com/@kording/628...
Would recording all neurons reveal their interactions?
For years, I was captivated by the idea that if we could record the activity of every neuron in the brain, we’d eventually crack the code…
medium.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If we could record all neurons we still would not know how they communicate: medium.com/@kording/628...
Konrad Körding of @UPenn.edu explains why causality is so difficult to uncover in neuroscience.
@kordinglab.bsky.social #NeuroAI2025 #AI #ML #neuroscience
@kordinglab.bsky.social #NeuroAI2025 #AI #ML #neuroscience
June 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Konrad Körding of @UPenn.edu explains why causality is so difficult to uncover in neuroscience.
@kordinglab.bsky.social #NeuroAI2025 #AI #ML #neuroscience
@kordinglab.bsky.social #NeuroAI2025 #AI #ML #neuroscience
Why Tononi’s Defense of IIT Fails to Convince Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social
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Why Tononi’s Defense of IIT Fails to Convince Me
I am one of the co-signers of the letter labeling IIT as “pseudoscience” for numerous reasons. These include a definition of…
medium.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Why Tononi’s Defense of IIT Fails to Convince Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social
medium.com/@kording/why...
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After many papers, finally wrote out why I believe the brain to do gradient descent as a blog post: medium.com/@kording/why...
Why I believe that the brain does something like gradient descent
The structure of brains
medium.com
March 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
After many papers, finally wrote out why I believe the brain to do gradient descent as a blog post: medium.com/@kording/why...
How I contributed to rejecting one of my favorite papers of all times, Yes, I teach it to students daily, and refer to it in lots of papers. Sorry. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
How I contributed to rejecting one of my favorite papers of all time
I believe we should talk about the mistakes we make.
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
How I contributed to rejecting one of my favorite papers of all times, Yes, I teach it to students daily, and refer to it in lots of papers. Sorry. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
Thanks a lot for the post! Some thoughts:
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Reply to Kording Bluesky Post | Claude
Reply to Kording Bluesky Post - interactive HTML page created with Claude.
claude.ai
July 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Thanks a lot for the post! Some thoughts:
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New blog post: The principle of neuroscience. medium.com/@kording/the...
The Principle of Neural Science
I first encountered Principles of Neural Science as a young student of neuroscience. The book was filled with delightful narratives…
medium.com
February 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
New blog post: The principle of neuroscience. medium.com/@kording/the...
Announcing App to do science by blog post: open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
Planning research - announcing an app
Less rushing = better science, I wrote you an App
open.substack.com
May 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Announcing App to do science by blog post: open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
Why hypothesis testing is not the way forward to understand brains: medium.com/@kording/hyp...
Hypotheses No Longer Cut It
For decades, hypothesis-driven research has been the cornerstone of inquiry — from health and neuroscience to political science, economics…
medium.com
March 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Why hypothesis testing is not the way forward to understand brains: medium.com/@kording/hyp...
Why human connectomes can probably not be useful for AI
open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
Lions and Dolphins can not make babies: Why human connectomes can probably not be useful for AI
How evolutionary thinking can make the debate more precise
open.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Why human connectomes can probably not be useful for AI
open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
Well-predicting machine learning in no way means that you can understand how the world works.
open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
Forward vs Inverse problems: why high performance machine learning usually means little about how the world works
Understanding causality from machine learning is unfortunately usually impossible; life sciences take note
open.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Well-predicting machine learning in no way means that you can understand how the world works.
open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
Wrote a post explaining the logic of normative modeling - which is one of the reasons why I am trying to be precise about what is predicted by models from which assumptions. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
The simple conceptual logic of Normative models of behavior
Bayes, Optimal Control, and Neural Networks
open.substack.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Wrote a post explaining the logic of normative modeling - which is one of the reasons why I am trying to be precise about what is predicted by models from which assumptions. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
Nice image from the Eva Dyer and Konrad Kording ( @kordinglab.bsky.social ) paper “Why the Simplest Explanation Isn’t Always the Best”—three datasets with the same principal components analysis. See: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
December 27, 2023 at 3:43 AM
Nice image from the Eva Dyer and Konrad Kording ( @kordinglab.bsky.social ) paper “Why the Simplest Explanation Isn’t Always the Best”—three datasets with the same principal components analysis. See: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Why Tononi et al's defense of IIT fails to convince me. medium.com/@kording/86f...
Why Tononi’s Defense of IIT Fails to Convince Me
I am one of the co-signers of the letter labeling IIT as “pseudoscience” for numerous reasons. These include a definition of…
medium.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Why Tononi et al's defense of IIT fails to convince me. medium.com/@kording/86f...
Konrad Kording argues that the best way to understand the brain may be to read its wiring directly rather than infer it from the outside.
@kordinglab.bsky.social joins @juanbenet.bsky.social for Ep 5 of the Juan Benet Podcast.
Full episode: youtu.be/FHQfmJEpRmU
@kordinglab.bsky.social joins @juanbenet.bsky.social for Ep 5 of the Juan Benet Podcast.
Full episode: youtu.be/FHQfmJEpRmU
The Power of a Single Neuron and a Path to Simulating the Brain | Dr. Konrad Kording
YouTube video by Juan Benet Podcast
youtu.be
June 25, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Konrad Kording argues that the best way to understand the brain may be to read its wiring directly rather than infer it from the outside.
@kordinglab.bsky.social joins @juanbenet.bsky.social for Ep 5 of the Juan Benet Podcast.
Full episode: youtu.be/FHQfmJEpRmU
@kordinglab.bsky.social joins @juanbenet.bsky.social for Ep 5 of the Juan Benet Podcast.
Full episode: youtu.be/FHQfmJEpRmU
2025: What I built, what shifted my priors, and why I'm optimistic open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
2025: A Good Year for Reliability
What I built, what shifted my priors, and why I'm optimistic. (Pic from E11Bio)
open.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 5:50 PM
2025: What I built, what shifted my priors, and why I'm optimistic open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
Why I believe that every cell does gradient descent (and maybe even partially backpropagation) open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
Want to bet all cells do gradient descent?
If I say brains do gradient descent I must posit that cells do so, too.
open.substack.com
June 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Why I believe that every cell does gradient descent (and maybe even partially backpropagation) open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
LLMs are about to make the problems in science visible. Let us be ready. This will make science better but we must make sure that what we will discover is taken the right way. An opportunity to do even more great things. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
March 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
LLMs are about to make the problems in science visible. Let us be ready. This will make science better but we must make sure that what we will discover is taken the right way. An opportunity to do even more great things. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
A modern evolutionary perspective on deep learning and all the rest. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
Deconstraints in Evolution, Deep Learning, and our lives
A few nontrivial ideas from modern evolutionary theory change how I think about everything
open.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A modern evolutionary perspective on deep learning and all the rest. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
It was to see some many friends in Philadelphia for the @comm4rigor.bsky.social meeting a couple of weeks ago. Together we are developing free online materials for researchers interested in doing rigorous science.
The first units are coming soon at c4r.io.
Photos: Eric Sucar
The first units are coming soon at c4r.io.
Photos: Eric Sucar
September 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
It was to see some many friends in Philadelphia for the @comm4rigor.bsky.social meeting a couple of weeks ago. Together we are developing free online materials for researchers interested in doing rigorous science.
The first units are coming soon at c4r.io.
Photos: Eric Sucar
The first units are coming soon at c4r.io.
Photos: Eric Sucar
Wrote a blog post on where the training signals for the brain come from. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
Evolution, Reward, Curiosity: The Three Sources of Learning Signals
Learning requires training signals; where are they from?
open.substack.com
February 23, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Wrote a blog post on where the training signals for the brain come from. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...