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.


(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


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