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…"

"Because a naked ontological dualism between mind and body/world is notoriously hard to defend, it is sometimes covered up by wedging the popular notion of emergence into the "explanatory gap"... "stro…"

"How difficult is it to define a brain? We know that the brain must be somewhere hidden in the genome fits in a CD-ROM. It's not that complicated. It's easier than Microsoft Windows. ...bout 2% of the …"

"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…"

"All our access to mathematics... is because we do computation. We can understand mathematics because our brain can compute some part of mathematics, very very little of it and to a very constrained co…"

"AI has recently made huge progress in encoding data at perceptual interfaces. is about using a stacked hierarchy of feature detectors. ...e use pattern detectors and we build them into networks that a…"

"he genome defines the rule book by which our brain is built. The brain boots itself, in a development process, and this booting takes some time... formation learning in which some connections are form…"