#101 – Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality

Joscha Bach is the VP of Research at the AI Foundation, previously
doing research at MIT and Harvard. Joscha work explores the
workings of the human mind, intelligence, consciousness, life on
Earth, and the possibly-simulated fabric of our universe. Support
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able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. OUTLINE: 00:00 -
Introduction 03:14 - Reverse engineering Joscha Bach 10:38 - Nature
of truth 18:47 - Original thinking 23:14 - Sentience vs
intelligence 31:45 - Mind vs Reality 46:51 - Hard problem of
consciousness 51:09 - Connection between the mind and the universe
56:29 - What is consciousness 1:02:32 - Language and concepts
1:09:02 - Meta-learning 1:16:35 - Spirit 1:18:10 - Our civilization
may not exist for long 1:37:48 - Twitter and social media 1:44:52 -
What systems of government might work well? 1:47:12 - The way out
of self-destruction with AI 1:55:18 - AI simulating humans to
understand its own nature 2:04:32 - Reinforcement learning 2:09:12
- Commonsense reasoning 2:15:47 - Would AGI need to have a body?
2:22:34 - Neuralink 2:27:01 - Reasoning at the scale of neurons and
societies 2:37:16 - Role of emotion 2:48:03 - Happiness is a cookie
that your brain bakes for itself