Get Earl K. Miller on Dwarkesh Podcast

Earl K. Miller is coming off a presidential lecture at the Society for Neuroscience on November 15, 2025, where he argued that traveling brain waves organize cognition and even consciousness through analog computation. Just weeks earlier his lab showed that a theta wave sweeps the cortex to read out visual working memory, tightening the link between specific rhythms and real cognitive performance.

His group has also tied fast gamma and slower alpha and beta bursts to how the brain gates and controls working memory in humans, sharpening targets for next‑gen neurotech and clinical interventions right as brain stimulation and BCI efforts accelerate. With new papers in press for 2026 from his lab, including work on how anesthesia destabilizes neural dynamics, this is a rare chance to hear a leading theorist synthesize fresh results that could reshape how AI learns from the brain.

Dwarkesh’s audience includes many of the builders steering AI and compute policy today, so Miller’s wave based framework landing there can influence how these systems are designed now, not years from now. As far as we can tell, Miller has not appeared on the Dwarkesh Podcast before, which makes this conversation an overdue first.

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