Shane O'Mara
Explore the mysteries of your brain and the magic of life by Shane O'Mara, Substack Featured Writer, best-selling author, and Professor of Experimental Brain Research. Book: Talking Heads - The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds
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metropolitan city living
confluences of familiar strangers
(one of my occasional pieces on urban living; previous pieces listed below)
antecendents of reinforcement learning, part 2
and the strange ironies of contemporary ai
We have now constructed the most elaborate conceptual nervous systems in human history: large language models and related deep architectures of astonishing internal complexity, full of hidden stat...
‘Cognitive Ecologies’: understanding mutual misunderstanding between polities
no polity can afford brittle cognition
How do we make sense of politics? Contemporary politics is often analysed by political scientists as a contest of interests, policies, institutions, nationalities, or ideologies; it’s also often anal…
the (forgotten) ancestry of reinforcement learning, part 1
skinner, hebb, and what lies within
(another one that’s been in my drafts for a while, and I’ve finally gotten round to finishing it off - it’s a bit technical, but still I hope readable; part two next time)
civilisations diverging
an evolutionary biological lens on the evolving global order
[This has been in my drafts since June 2025, and I’ve finally decided to update it; it’s a speculative view of how civilisations might be selected for, and shaped by, larger geop...
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Neuroscientist, psychologist, writer; Professor of Experimental Brain Research, Trinity College Dublin; Exploring the wonder of life through a neuroscience and psychology lens
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