How to Build a Brain

This book by Chris Eliasmith was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Lex Fridman. The people who vouched for it on air: Nate Derbinsky. It comes up in conversations about brain health, productivity & performance. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

• “he's got a really cool book called how to build a brain and if you google and you can google spun you can find a toolkit”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “really cool book”
  Nate Derbinsky · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 201800:23:03

  Said during "MIT AGI: Cognitive Architecture (Nate Derbinsky)". The episode features Nate Derbinsky: Professor at Northeastern University working on computational agents with human-level intelligence; longtime developer of the Soar cognitive architecture and student of John Laird's lab at the University of Michigan. Nate Derbinsky explains cognitive architecture as a path to AGI, focusing on the Soar system and the surprising value of forgetting.