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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.

— Joscha Bach The Cortical Conductor Theory (2017)

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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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