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

— Joscha Bach Seven Principles of Synthetic Intelligence (2008)

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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.

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

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