Sarah Hamburg: Neuromorphic Computing

Danielle Newnham Podcast

Today’s guest is Sarah Hamburg – a cognitive neuroscientist and researcher currently working as a post-doctoral Neuromorphic AI Engineer in Developmental Robotics. Sarah is also a DeSci (decentralised science) advocate and organiser, heavily involved in the decentralised science (DeSci) space since early 2021. After working as a core member of an Open Science DAO, she published a letter in Nature to increase awareness of DeSci and was then commissioned to write a DeSci "explainer" article for a16z's Future magazine. In 2022 she cofounded a "web3" consultancy which worked with UK Aid on blockchain for International Development.

In this conversation, Sarah and I discuss her work and research, what neuroscience and consciousness is, why neuromorphic computing is such an exciting field to be working in. We also bond over a shared suffering of a chronic pain condition called fibromyalgia and I open up about the time as a kid when I nearly drowned and what I saw during that near-death experience.

This interview is a little bit different from most of the other ones I do but it was thoroughly enjoyable and I am so grateful to Sarah for exploring these truly fascinating topics together.

I am sure you will enjoy it too!

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Mentioned in this episode:

The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid The Truth From Our Eyes by Donald D. Hoffman

Reframing Fibromyalgia by Sarah Hamburg

Brain Activity Detected in Dying

A Guide to DeSci, The Latest Web3 Movement in a16z Future magazine

Call to Join the DeSci Movement in Nature