# An Architecture for Building Brains from Top to Bottom?

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Podcast: [EE Times Current](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ee-times-current-709434)
Published: 2025-12-05T18:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcast.show/aspencore/episode/150505077/
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## Resource

Professor Chris Eliasmith is a computer scientist and philosopher who’s been modelling cognitive systems for almost three decades. In this episode of Brains and Machines , he talks to Dr. Sunny Bains of University College London about his neural engineering framework and the semantic pointer architecture his team have developed to implement it. Discussion follows with Dr. Giulia D’Angelo from the Czech Technical University in Prague and Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings of Johns Hopkins University.

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