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

— Joscha Bach The Cortical Conductor Theory (2017)

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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)

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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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.

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Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such and such another proposition is true of that thing.

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