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Joscha Bach Quotes

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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Minds are software states... Software doesn't have identity.

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

[W]hile dynamical systems often cannot be effectively computed on a finite state machine (such as a von Neumann computer), they can often be efficiently approximated.

The Cortical Conductor Theory (2017)

Maybe we have flying dreams as children because we recreate the objects that we know, the maps that we know, from different perspectives, which also means from the bird's-eye perspective.

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

What the universe makes visible... to any observer... is... functionality.

Principles of Synthetic Intelligence PSI (2009)

Maybe smarter elephants would meditate themselves out of existence because their brains are too large. So... that elephants that were not autistic, they didn't reproduce.

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

I looked up the statistics, black kids in the US have slower cognitive development

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joscha Bach (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.