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"You cannot learn what does not attract your attention. Women tend to find abstract systems, conflicts and mechanisms intrinsically boring."
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Joscha Bach[T]o encode a brain genetically, based on the hardware that we are usi — Joscha Bach
"[T]o encode a brain genetically, based on the hardware that we are using, we need something like at least 500 kilobytes of code... actually... its going to be a little more, I guess. It sounds like surprisingly little... but in terms of scientific theories this is a lot. ...The universe, according to the core theory of quantum mechanics... its like half a page of code... to generate the universe. ...[I]f you want to understand evolution, its like a paragraph... a couple lines, really, to understand an evolutionary process. ...[T]heres lots ...of details that you get afterwards, because this process itself doesnt define what all the animals are going to look like. In a similar way, the code of the universe doesnt tell you what this planet is going to look like and you... are going to look like. Its just defining the rule book."
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Joscha Bach
Joscha Bach
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Joscha Bach is a German cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher known for his work on cognitive architectures, artificial intelligence, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, multi-agent systems, and philosophy of mind. His research aims to bridge cognitive science and AI by studying how human intelligence and consciousness can be modeled computationally.
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"For all practical purposes, the universe is a pattern generator, and the mind "makes sense" of these patterns by encoding them according to the regularities it can find. Thus, the representation of a concept in an intelligent system is not a pointer to a "thing in reality", but a set of hierarchical constraints over (for instance perceptual) data."
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"[T]he quality of a world model eventually does not amount to how "truly" it depicts "reality", but how adequately it encodes the (sensory) patterns."
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"In cognitive science, we currently have two major families of architectures... One, the classical school... characterized as Fodorian Architectures, as... the manipulation of a language of thought, usually expressed as a set of rules and capable of . ...The other family favors distributed approaches and constrains a dynamic system with potentially astronomically many until... behaviors [of] general intelligence are left. This may seem more "natural" and well-tuned... Yet many functional aspects of intelligence... as planning and language, are... much harder to depict using the dynamical systems approach."
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"too many people, so many mass executions of the elderly and infirm make sense… if the brain discards unused neurons, why shold socieity [sic] keep their equivalent"
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"Normally we only get attention in the parts of our mind that create heat, where you have a mismatch between [the] model and the results that are happening. So most people are not self-aware, because their control is too good. If everything works out roughly the way you want, and the only things that dont work out are whether your football team wins, then you will mostly have models about these domains. ...Its only when... your fundamental relationships through the world dont work [that, attention or self-awareness arises]."
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