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born 1973 Germany

Joscha Bach (born 1973 in Weimar, Germany) is a cognitive scientist focusing on cognitive architectures, models of mental representation, emotion, motivation and sociality. Achievements include research in novel data compression algorithm using concurrent entropy models; development of microPsi cognitive architecture for modeling emotion, motivation, mental representation.

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What's the best algorithm that you should be using to fix your world model?

Joscha: Computational Meta-Psychology (2015)

This book is an attempt to explain cognition—thought, perception, emotion, experience—in terms of a machine, that is, using a cognitive architecture.

Principles of Synthetic Intelligence PSI (2009)

Whereas mathematics is the realm of specification, computation is the realm of implementation; it captures all those systems that can actually be realized.

The Cortical Conductor Theory (2017)

The goal of building cognitive architectures is to achieve an understanding of mental processes by constructing testable information processing models.

Principles of Synthetic Intelligence PSI (2009)

You cannot learn what does not attract your attention. Women tend to find abstract systems, conflicts and mechanisms intrinsically boring.

We do not ...recognize ...objects of our environment; we construct them over the regularities ...at the system interface of our cognitive system.

Principles of Synthetic Intelligence PSI (2009)

To understand... mind, we have to ask how a system capable of constructing has to be built...

Principles of Synthetic Intelligence PSI (2009)

Arguably most people are not generally intelligent, because they don't have to solve problems that make them generally intelligent.

Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality (2020)

Mathematics is the kingdom of specification and computation is the kingdom of implementation. It's very important to understand this difference.

Joscha: Computational Meta-Psychology (2015)

The absence of an understanding of substrate independent machines lead Leibniz to the rejection of mechanist philosophy...

The Cortical Conductor Theory (2017)

MicroPsi is a cognitive model that represents the author’s attempt to contribute to the discussion of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)...

Seven Principles of Synthetic Intelligence (2008)

MicroPsi is an implementation of Dietrich Dörner’s Psi theory... MicroPsi is an attempt to embody the principles discussed above...

Seven Principles of Synthetic Intelligence (2008)

To kill the Dalai Lama you'd have to kill his tradition.

Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality (2020)

How difficult is it to define a brain? We know that the brain must be somewhere hidden in the genome [which] fits in a CD-ROM. It's not that complicated. It's easier than Microsoft Windows.

Joscha: Computational Meta-Psychology (2015)

You maintain your identity so you can serve your meaning. So you can do the things that you are supposed to do before you die.

Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality (2020)

Behaviorism... in the form of radical behaviorism... not only neglected the nature of mental entities as an object of inquiry, but denied their existence...

Principles of Synthetic Intelligence PSI (2009)

[T]he quality of a world model eventually does not amount to how "truly" it depicts "reality", but how adequately it encodes the (sensory) patterns.

Seven Principles of Synthetic Intelligence (2008)

Everything we know about ourselves is... ordering... over features available at the interface; we know of mental phenomena only insofar as they are patterns or constructed over patterns.

Principles of Synthetic Intelligence PSI (2009)

Long ago, physics and other natural sciences... had become computational.

Seven Principles of Synthetic Intelligence (2008)

Computational systems are machines that can be described apriori and systematically, and implemented on every substrate that elicits the causal properties that are necessary to capture the respective states and transition functions.

The Cortical Conductor Theory (2017)

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