Joscha Bach

"e saw that mental representation is about percepts, mental simulations, conceptual representations... onceptual representations give us concept spaces, and... these concept spaces... give us an interf…"

"There are some animals like elephants that have larger brains than us and they don't seem to be smarter. ...Elephants seem to be autistic. They have very, very good motor control and they're really go…"

"Computation is different. Computation can exist. It starts with an initial state, and then you have a transition function. You do the work. You apply the transition function you get into the next stat…"

"The easiest answer is existence is the default. ...So this is the lowest number of bits that you need to encode this. ...Nonexistence might not be a meaningful notion. ...If everything that can exist,…"

"Just as the extensive theoretical bodies of physics, chemistry, ... unified theories of cognition are not isolated statements discarded when... predictions refuted. Rather they are paradigms... that d…"

"Cognitive architectures are... Leibnizian machines... designed to bring forth the feats of cognition, and built to allow us to enter... examine them, and to watch their individual parts... pushing and…"

"Arguably most people are not generally intelligent, because they don't have to solve problems that make them generally intelligent. ...t's not yet clear if we are smart enough to build AI and understa…"

"The fuzzy idea is the one of continuous existence. We don't have continuous existence... because it's not computable. There is no continuous process. The only thing that binds you together with the la…"