Consciousness is software | Joscha Bach | FULL INTERVIEW
846Joscha Bach defends his radical theory of consciousness and machine learning.
Is consciousness a physical law?
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Join cognitive scientist and AI researcher Joscha Bach for an in-depth interview on the nature of consciousness, in which he argues that the brain is hardware, consciousness its software and that, in order to understand our reality, we must unlock the algorithms of consciousness. Interviewed by Ricky Williamson.
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Joscha Bach is an exceptional cognitive scientist who is pushing the limits of what we can achieve with Artificial Intelligence. As an AI researcher for MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, he is constantly exploring new frontiers in cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modelling, and multi-agent systems. Bach's groundbreaking MicroPsi project is creating virtual agents that are revolutionizing our understanding of how emotion, motivation, and cognition interact in situated agents.
This interview took place at HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, Hay-on-Wye, in May 2024.
00:47 How do you define consciousness?
03:34 Do animals have self-reflexivity?
05:05 Are you a physicalist about consciousness?
05:42 How do you account for the incompleteness of our physical theories?
06:46 How do you account for the physical basis of computer softwares?
08:57 How can consciousness be as physical as computer software?
10:06 Surely consciousness is less abstracted than mathematics?
11:06 Mystical experiences
13:14 How can you mathematise consciousness?
15:26 How can we have objective knowledge about consciousness,
when consciousness itself is our means of knowing?
16:55 Is free will an illusion?
18:07 How can we have an epistemological starting
point other than consciousness?
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