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author Shankar, Sohan
Pan, Yi
Jiang, Hanqi
Liu, Zhengliang
Darbandi, Mohammad R.
Lorenzo, Agustin
Chen, Junhao
You, Weihang
Hasan, Md Mehedi
Zidan, Arif Hassan
Gelman, Eliana
Konfrst, Joshua A.
Russell, Jillian Y.
Fernandes, Katelyn
Yang, Tianze
Li, Yiwei
Zhao, Huaqin
Jahin, Afrar
Ganguly, Triparna
Dinesha, Shair
Zhou, Yifan
Wu, Zihao
Li, Xinliang
Adusumilli, Lokesh
Hussein, Aziza
Nookarapu, Sagar
Hou, Jixin
Jiang, Kun
Li, Jiaxi
Heinel, Brenden
Xi, XianShen
Hubbard, Hailey
Khan, Zayna
Whitaker, Levi
Cao, Ivan
Allgaier, Max
Darby, Andrew
Zhao, Lin
Zhang, Lu
Wang, Xiaoqiao
Li, Xiang
Zhang, Wei
Yu, Xiaowei
Zhu, Dajiang
Abate, Yohannes
Liu, Tianming
author_facet Shankar, Sohan
Pan, Yi
Jiang, Hanqi
Liu, Zhengliang
Darbandi, Mohammad R.
Lorenzo, Agustin
Chen, Junhao
You, Weihang
Hasan, Md Mehedi
Zidan, Arif Hassan
Gelman, Eliana
Konfrst, Joshua A.
Russell, Jillian Y.
Fernandes, Katelyn
Yang, Tianze
Li, Yiwei
Zhao, Huaqin
Jahin, Afrar
Ganguly, Triparna
Dinesha, Shair
Zhou, Yifan
Wu, Zihao
Li, Xinliang
Adusumilli, Lokesh
Hussein, Aziza
Nookarapu, Sagar
Hou, Jixin
Jiang, Kun
Li, Jiaxi
Heinel, Brenden
Xi, XianShen
Hubbard, Hailey
Khan, Zayna
Whitaker, Levi
Cao, Ivan
Allgaier, Max
Darby, Andrew
Zhao, Lin
Zhang, Lu
Wang, Xiaoqiao
Li, Xiang
Zhang, Wei
Yu, Xiaowei
Zhu, Dajiang
Abate, Yohannes
Liu, Tianming
contents This position and survey paper identifies the emerging convergence of neuroscience, artificial general intelligence (AGI), and neuromorphic computing toward a unified research paradigm. Using a framework grounded in brain physiology, we highlight how synaptic plasticity, sparse spike-based communication, and multimodal association provide design principles for next-generation AGI systems that potentially combine both human and machine intelligences. The review traces this evolution from early connectionist models to state-of-the-art large language models, demonstrating how key innovations like transformer attention, foundation-model pre-training, and multi-agent architectures mirror neurobiological processes like cortical mechanisms, working memory, and episodic consolidation. We then discuss emerging physical substrates capable of breaking the von Neumann bottleneck to achieve brain-scale efficiency in silicon: memristive crossbars, in-memory compute arrays, and emerging quantum and photonic devices. There are four critical challenges at this intersection: 1) integrating spiking dynamics with foundation models, 2) maintaining lifelong plasticity without catastrophic forgetting, 3) unifying language with sensorimotor learning in embodied agents, and 4) enforcing ethical safeguards in advanced neuromorphic autonomous systems. This combined perspective across neuroscience, computation, and hardware offers an integrative agenda for in each of these fields.
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spellingShingle Bridging Brains and Machines: A Unified Frontier in Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Neuromorphic Systems
Shankar, Sohan
Pan, Yi
Jiang, Hanqi
Liu, Zhengliang
Darbandi, Mohammad R.
Lorenzo, Agustin
Chen, Junhao
You, Weihang
Hasan, Md Mehedi
Zidan, Arif Hassan
Gelman, Eliana
Konfrst, Joshua A.
Russell, Jillian Y.
Fernandes, Katelyn
Yang, Tianze
Li, Yiwei
Zhao, Huaqin
Jahin, Afrar
Ganguly, Triparna
Dinesha, Shair
Zhou, Yifan
Wu, Zihao
Li, Xinliang
Adusumilli, Lokesh
Hussein, Aziza
Nookarapu, Sagar
Hou, Jixin
Jiang, Kun
Li, Jiaxi
Heinel, Brenden
Xi, XianShen
Hubbard, Hailey
Khan, Zayna
Whitaker, Levi
Cao, Ivan
Allgaier, Max
Darby, Andrew
Zhao, Lin
Zhang, Lu
Wang, Xiaoqiao
Li, Xiang
Zhang, Wei
Yu, Xiaowei
Zhu, Dajiang
Abate, Yohannes
Liu, Tianming
Neurons and Cognition
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
This position and survey paper identifies the emerging convergence of neuroscience, artificial general intelligence (AGI), and neuromorphic computing toward a unified research paradigm. Using a framework grounded in brain physiology, we highlight how synaptic plasticity, sparse spike-based communication, and multimodal association provide design principles for next-generation AGI systems that potentially combine both human and machine intelligences. The review traces this evolution from early connectionist models to state-of-the-art large language models, demonstrating how key innovations like transformer attention, foundation-model pre-training, and multi-agent architectures mirror neurobiological processes like cortical mechanisms, working memory, and episodic consolidation. We then discuss emerging physical substrates capable of breaking the von Neumann bottleneck to achieve brain-scale efficiency in silicon: memristive crossbars, in-memory compute arrays, and emerging quantum and photonic devices. There are four critical challenges at this intersection: 1) integrating spiking dynamics with foundation models, 2) maintaining lifelong plasticity without catastrophic forgetting, 3) unifying language with sensorimotor learning in embodied agents, and 4) enforcing ethical safeguards in advanced neuromorphic autonomous systems. This combined perspective across neuroscience, computation, and hardware offers an integrative agenda for in each of these fields.
title Bridging Brains and Machines: A Unified Frontier in Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Neuromorphic Systems
topic Neurons and Cognition
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10722