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The absence of an understanding of substrate independent machines lead Leibniz to the rejection of mechanist philosophy...

— 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)

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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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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