{"id":233488,"date":"2026-03-17T10:10:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-brains-learning-algorithm-isnt-backpropagation"},"modified":"2026-03-17T10:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:10:25","slug":"the-brains-learning-algorithm-isnt-backpropagation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-brains-learning-algorithm-isnt-backpropagation","title":{"rendered":"The Brain\u2019s Learning Algorithm Isn\u2019t Backpropagation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l-OLgbdZ3kk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To try everything Brilliant has to offer\u2014free\u2014for a full 30 days, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/brilliant.org\/ArtemKirsanov\">https:\/\/brilliant.org\/ArtemKirsanov<\/a>. You\u2019ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription.<\/p>\n<p>=====<br \/> My name is Artem, I\u2019m a neuroscience PhD student at Harvard University.<br \/> \ud83c\udf0e Website and Social links: <a href=\"https:\/\/kirsanov.ai\/\">https:\/\/kirsanov.ai\/<\/a><br \/> \ud83d\udce5 \\<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To try everything Brilliant has to offer\u2014free\u2014for a full 30 days, visit https:\/\/brilliant.org\/ArtemKirsanov. You\u2019ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. ===== My name is Artem, I\u2019m a neuroscience PhD student at Harvard University. \ud83c\udf0e Website and Social links: https:\/\/kirsanov.ai\/ \ud83d\udce5 \\ Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}