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Joscha: Computational Meta-Psychology

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Assumes interest and some biology. Education, not medical advice.

85K views10 years ago2 recommendations

Brain and nervesNeuroscienceMemory and learning

Joscha Bach explores computational models of the human mind, discussing how cognitive architectures can explain rationality, emotion, and consciousness.

Computational theories of the mind seem to be ideally suited to explain rationality. But how can computations be subverted by meaning, emotion and love? Joscha

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What people say. Recommended as an insightful and thought-provoking lecture bridging the concepts of computation, artificial intelligence, and human psychology.

maze-lein Hacker News • Recommends

On “Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality [video]”

He is definitely one of the most interesting people to listen to when it comes to AI, Intelligence and Philosophy. I've seen him in Leipzig on CCC events in the past, here are some of his other talks: * Computational Meta-Intelligence (32C3): link to this video * Machine Dreams (33C3): link * The Ghost in the Machine (35C3): link He also did a very interesting podcast episode with Fefe and Frank from alternativlos! (in German): link
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miketeryin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Mind Emulation Foundation”

The best I've seen the topic of mind and computation bridged and well communicated has been by Joscha Bach. Recommend watching this video on Computational Meta-Psychology 1. Also his 3 hour conversation with Lex Fridman is a whole other amazing rabbit hole 2. 1 link to this video 2 link
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freeflightin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Can staying awake beat depression?”

…e to the individual and atop of that the individual's brain physiology, it seems like an impossible task. But then I see stuff like talks by Joscha Bach on C3 0 1 2 and it's quite inspirational as it gives me hope that creating strong AI might actually help us understand what's going on under our own hoods a little bit better. 0 link 1 link to this video 2 link…
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