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Is There Really a Hard Problem of Consciousness? - Dr. Joscha Bach, Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Joscha Bach is a German artificial intelligence researcher and cognitive scientist who works on on cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and multi-agent systems. We got connected over the hard problem of consciousness - namely, why do people seem to think it’s so hard? During our conversation we deal with the foundational questions of the technological future being built in Silicon Valley, the fever dream of machine intelligence, and try to understand why people seem to think that there’s even such a thing as the hard problem of consciousness in the first place.
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(00:04:09) Career Advice
(00:11:31) Beauty, Grace, & Hotness
(00:13:48) Putting on Airs
(00:22:32) Patreon Ask
(00:22:33) Winning for the sake of winning
(00:29:35) Transformative experiences
(00:36:25) Speciation event, or crap again?
(00:42:17) Who is Joscha Bach
(00:52:39) Physics & Causality
(01:00:52) Physics vs Biology
(01:12:16) Life vs Cells
(01:20:14) Biosynthetic AGI
(01:28:15) Creativity & Novelty
(01:38:52) Wetware & Neuromorphic computing
(01:50:46) The Limits of Hardware
(02:05:07) The value of Agency
(02:15:47) Layers of Society
(02:35:03) Chimp Empire
(02:52:31) Collapse
(03:05:13) The Hard Problem
(03:43:28) Computer Imagination
(04:02:52) How reasoning works
(04:14:28) Reward Functions
(04:20:01) Consciousness dreams
(04:25:35) The heart of the disagreement
(04:30:15) Consensus
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#AGI #consciousness #machinelearning
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PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities.
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Joscha Bach is a German artificial intelligence researcher and cognitive scientist who works on on cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and multi-agent systems. We got connected over the hard problem of consciousness - namely, why do people seem to think it’s so hard? During our conversation we deal with the foundational questions of the technological future being built in Silicon Valley, the fever dream of machine intelligence, and try to understand why people seem to think that there’s even such a thing as the hard problem of consciousness in the first place.
(00:00:00) Go!
(00:04:09) Career Advice
(00:11:31) Beauty, Grace, & Hotness
(00:13:48) Putting on Airs
(00:22:32) Patreon Ask
(00:22:33) Winning for the sake of winning
(00:29:35) Transformative experiences
(00:36:25) Speciation event, or crap again?
(00:42:17) Who is Joscha Bach
(00:52:39) Physics & Causality
(01:00:52) Physics vs Biology
(01:12:16) Life vs Cells
(01:20:14) Biosynthetic AGI
(01:28:15) Creativity & Novelty
(01:38:52) Wetware & Neuromorphic computing
(01:50:46) The Limits of Hardware
(02:05:07) The value of Agency
(02:15:47) Layers of Society
(02:35:03) Chimp Empire
(02:52:31) Collapse
(03:05:13) The Hard Problem
(03:43:28) Computer Imagination
(04:02:52) How reasoning works
(04:14:28) Reward Functions
(04:20:01) Consciousness dreams
(04:25:35) The heart of the disagreement
(04:30:15) Consensus
Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB
Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub
#AGI #consciousness #machinelearning
Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience
AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics
Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S
PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities.
- Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog
- RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss
- Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD
- Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y
SOCIAL:
- Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci
MUSIC:
-Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671
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