Joscha Bach vs. Mary Midgley
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Joscha Bach
1973 – present
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.
"e saw that mental representation is about percepts, mental simulations, conceptual representations... onceptual representations give us concept spaces, and... t…"
Mary Midgley
1919 – 2018
Mary Beatrice Midgley was a British philosopher. A senior lecturer in philosophy at Newcastle University, she was known for her work on science, ethics and animal rights. She wrote her first book, Beast and Man (1978), when she was in her late fifties, and went on to write over 15 more, including Animals and Why They Matter (1983), Wickedness (1984), The Ethical Primate (1994), Evolution as a Religion (1985), and Science as Salvation (1992).
"It would be quite false to say that competition is the only relation that obtains between species. Mutual dependence is in general quite as important. Each kind…"
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