Ep. - 1558 – THE SCIENCE OF RESILIENCE: DAVID SUSSILLO ON SURVIVING CHAOS
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.7 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
David Sussillo is a neuroscientist, technologist, and author of Emergence: A Memoir of Boyhood, Computation, and the Mysteries of Mind. Kate first met David when they were classmates at the Milton Hershey School in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
David has made a career at the cutting edge of neuroscience and technology, yet his path there was anything but a straight line. Born to drug-addicted parents in New Mexico, he navigated a childhood marked by violence and neglect. But a seed was planted at the unlikeliest of places—the local arcade.
What follows is a remarkable journey of resilience and transformation, from the chaotic corridors of group homes to the halls of Columbia and Stanford. Along the way, Sussillo takes readers on an illuminating tour of the century-long dance between neuroscience, physics, and computation that has laid the groundwork for neural networks—the technology that drives modern artificial intelligence. As he advances in the field, working to demystify these networks, he also begins to pursue an answer to a more personal question: why, and how, did he succeed against all odds?
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| 1:36.1 | The amazing Kate Casey! Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with KKC. My guest today is David Cicelo. |
| 1:45.8 | Now, David and I actually first met years ago when we were both students at Milton Hershey School, |
| 1:50.3 | which is a boarding school for underprivileged children. |
| 1:53.3 | It was created by Milton Hershey, the chocolate magnet, and all of us came from challenging |
| 1:57.9 | circumstances. |
| 1:59.8 | David was a few years ahead of me, and even back then, |
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