{"id":165089,"date":"2023-06-03T22:22:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T03:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/joscha-bach-time-simulation-hypothesis-existence"},"modified":"2023-06-03T22:22:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T03:22:49","slug":"joscha-bach-time-simulation-hypothesis-existence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/joscha-bach-time-simulation-hypothesis-existence","title":{"rendered":"Joscha Bach: Time, Simulation Hypothesis, &amp; Existence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joscha Bach: Time, Simulation Hypothesis, Existence\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3MNBxfrmfmI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist focusing on cognitive architectures, consciousness, models of mental representation, emotion, motivation and sociality.<\/p>\n<p>Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/curtjaimungal\">https:\/\/patreon.com\/curtjaimungal<\/a>.<br \/> Crypto: <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/cryptoTOE\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/cryptoTOE<\/a><br \/> PayPal: <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/paypalTOE\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/paypalTOE<\/a><br \/> Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TOEwithCurt\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/TOEwithCurt<\/a>.<br \/> Discord Invite: <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/kBcnfNVwqs\">https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/kBcnfNVwqs<\/a>.<br \/> iTunes: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal\/id1521758802\">https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/better-left-unsaid-wit\u20261521758802<\/a><br \/> Pandora: <a href=\"https:\/\/pdora.co\/33b9lfP\">https:\/\/pdora.co\/33b9lfP<\/a><br \/> Spotify: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e<\/a>.<br \/> Subreddit r\/TheoriesOfEverything: <a href=\"https:\/\/reddit.com\/r\/theoriesofeverything\">https:\/\/reddit.com\/r\/theoriesofeverything<\/a>.<br \/> Merch: <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/TOEmerch\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/TOEmerch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>0:00:00 Introduction.<br \/> 0:00:17 Bach\u2019s work ethic \/ daily routine.<br \/> 0:01:35 What is your definition of truth?<br \/> 0:04:41 Nature\u2019s substratum is a \u201cquantum graph\u201d?<br \/> 0:06:25 Mathematics as the descriptor of all language.<br \/> 0:13:52 Why is constructivist mathematics \u201creal\u201d? What\u2019s the definition of \u201creal\u201d?<br \/> 0:17:06 What does it mean to \u201cexist\u201d? Does \u201cpi\u201d exist?<br \/> 0:20:14 The mystery of something vs. nothing. Existence is the default.<br \/> 0:21:11 Bach\u2019s model vs. the multiverse.<br \/> 0:26:51 Is the universe deterministic.<br \/> 0:28:23 What determines the initial conditions, as well as the rules?<br \/> 0:30:55 What is time? Is time fundamental?<br \/> 0:34:21 What\u2019s the optimal algorithm for finding truth?<br \/> 0:40:40 Are the fundamental laws of physics ultimately \u201csimple\u201d?<br \/> 0:50:17 The relationship between art and the artist\u2019s cost function.<br \/> 0:54:02 Ideas are stories, being directed by intuitions.<br \/> 0:58:00 Society has a minimal role in training your intuitions.<br \/> 0:59:24 Why does art benefit from a repressive government?<br \/> 1:04:01 A market case for civil rights.<br \/> 1:06:40 Fascism vs communism.<br \/> 1:10:50 Bach\u2019s \u201ccontrol \/ attention \/ reflective recall\u201d model.<br \/> 1:13:32 What\u2019s more fundamental\u2026 Consciousness or attention?<br \/> 1:16:02 The Chinese Room Experiment.<br \/> 1:25:22 Is understanding predicated on consciousness?<br \/> 1:26:22 Integrated Information Theory of consciousness (IIT)<br \/> 1:30:15 Donald Hoffman\u2019s theory of consciousness.<br \/> 1:32:40 Douglas Hofstadter\u2019s \u201cstrange loop\u201d theory of consciousness.<br \/> 1:34:10 Holonomic Brain theory of consciousness.<br \/> 1:34:42 Daniel Dennett\u2019s theory of consciousness.<br \/> 1:36:57 Sensorimotor theory of consciousness (embodied cognition)<br \/> 1:44:39 What is intelligence?<br \/> 1:45:08 Intelligence vs. consciousness.<br \/> 1:46:36 Where does Free Will come into play, in Bach\u2019s model?<br \/> 1:48:46 The opposite of free will can lead to, or feel like, addiction.<br \/> 1:51:48 Changing your identity to effectively live forever.<br \/> 1:59:13 Depersonalization disorder as a result of conceiving of your \u201cself\u201d as illusory.<br \/> 2:02:25 Dealing with a fear of loss of control.<br \/> 2:05:00 What about heart and conscience?<br \/> 2:07:28 How to test \/ falsify Bach\u2019s model of consciousness.<br \/> 2:13:46 How has Bach\u2019s model changed in the past few years?<br \/> 2:14:41 Why Bach doesn\u2019t practice Lucid Dreaming anymore.<br \/> 2:15:33 Dreams and GAN\u2019s (a machine learning framework)<br \/> 2:18:08 If dreams are for helping us learn, why don\u2019t we consciously remember our dreams.<br \/> 2:19:58 Are dreams \u201creal\u201d? Is all of reality a dream?<br \/> 2:20:39 How do you practically change your experience to be most positive \/ helpful?<br \/> 2:23:56 What\u2019s more important than survival? What\u2019s worth dying for?<br \/> 2:28:27 Bach\u2019s identity.<br \/> 2:29:44 Is there anything objectively wrong with hating humanity?<br \/> 2:30:31 Practical Platonism.<br \/> 2:33:00 What \u201cGod\u201d is.<br \/> 2:36:24 Gods are as real as you, Bach claims.<br \/> 2:37:44 What \u201cprayer\u201d is, and why it works.<br \/> 2:41:06 Our society has lost its future and thus our culture.<br \/> 2:43:24 What does Bach disagree with Jordan Peterson about?<br \/> 2:47:16 The millennials are the first generation that\u2019s authoritarian since WW2<br \/> 2:48:31 Bach\u2019s views on the \u201csocial justice\u201d movement.<br \/> 2:51:29 Universal Basic Income as an answer to social inequality, or General Artificial Intelligence?<br \/> 2:57:39 Nested hierarchy of \u201cI\u201cs (the conflicts within ourselves)<br \/> 2:59:22 In the USA, innovation is \u201ccheating\u201d (for the most part)<br \/> 3:02:27 Activists are usually operating on false information.<br \/> 3:03:04 Bach\u2019s Marxist roots and lessons to his former self.<br \/> 3:08:45 BONUS BIT: On societies problems.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe if you want more conversations on Theories of Everything, Consciousness, Free Will, God, and the mathematics \/ physics of each.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m producing an imminent documentary Better Left Unsaid <a href=\"http:\/\/betterleftunsaidfilm.com\">http:\/\/betterleftunsaidfilm.com<\/a> on the topic of \u201cwhen does the left go too far?\u201d Visit that site if you\u2019d like to contribute to getting the film distributed (in 2020) and seeing more conversations like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist focusing on cognitive architectures, consciousness, models of mental representation, emotion, motivation and sociality. Patreon: https:\/\/patreon.com\/curtjaimungal. Crypto: https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/cryptoTOE PayPal: https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/paypalTOE Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/TOEwithCurt. Discord Invite: https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/kBcnfNVwqs. iTunes: https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/better-left-unsaid-wit\u20261521758802 Pandora: https:\/\/pdora.co\/33b9lfP Spotify: https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e. Subreddit r\/TheoriesOfEverything: https:\/\/reddit.com\/r\/theoriesofeverything. Merch: https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/TOEmerch. 0:00:00 Introduction. 0:00:17 Bach\u2019s work ethic \/ daily routine. 0:01:35 What is your definition [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,39,32,1490,41,2229,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-economics","category-education","category-government","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}