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

— Joscha Bach Principles of Synthetic Intelligence PSI (2009)

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

Joscha: Computational Meta-Psychology (2015)

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)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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