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Joscha: From Computation to Consciousness (31c3)

Joscha Bach

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Joscha Bach explores the philosophy of artificial intelligence, arguing that the mind and the physical universe can be understood as computational systems.

How can the physical universe give rise to a mind? I suggest to replace this confusing question by another one: what kind of information processing system is the mind, and how is the mind computed? As we will see, even our ideas of the physical universe turn out to be computational. Let us explore some fascinating scenery of the philosophy underlying Artificial Intelligence. Talk presented at the 31st Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, December 2014 (English version)

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What people say. Recommended as an inspiring and sophisticated overview of the brain-as-a-computer theory and computational models of mind.

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On “Mind as an emergent self-organizing process”

…a mind like system. I think the articles model is one of the most sophisticated of the highly integrated ones out there. It really is worth reading, especially the explanation for emotion and motivation i found to be quite interesting. If you need a teaser to get you going, there is also a talk by the author which is a good summary of the article: link to this video…
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On “Can staying awake beat depression?”

…s subjective 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 to this video 1 link 2 link…
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On “How much bandwidth does the spinal cord have?”

…ly more portable across disciplines, than some of the historical examples that the author of that Aeon piece brings up. Anyway, obviously I don't have any real answers but for whatever reason the brain-as-a-computer theory rings pretty true for me and I've enjoyed reading essays and watching talks about the topic 2 3. 1 link 2 link 3 link to this video ^-- This is the first part in an ongoing series of lectures that Joscha Bach has been giving at the Chaos Communication Congress; if you watch it and find it interesting you should check out the proceeding installments.…
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