{"id":207876,"date":"2025-03-05T14:12:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T20:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/joscha-bach-consciousness-and-agi"},"modified":"2025-03-05T14:12:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T20:12:26","slug":"joscha-bach-consciousness-and-agi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/joscha-bach-consciousness-and-agi","title":{"rendered":"Joscha Bach: Consciousness and AGI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uwHm9Z539zo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>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 the philosophy of mind.<\/p>\n<p>Links of interest:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/bach.ai\/\">http:\/\/bach.ai\/<\/a><br \/> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Plinz\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Plinz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Steve and Joscha discuss:<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Introduction.<br \/> 01:26 Growing up in the forest in East Germany.<br \/> 06:23 Academia: early neural net pioneers, CS and Philosophy.<br \/> 10:17 The fall of the Berlin Wall.<br \/> 14:57 Commodore 64 and early programming experiences.<br \/> 15:29 AGI timeline and predictions.<br \/> 19:35 Scaling hypothesis, beyond Transformers, universality of information structures and world models.<br \/> 25:29 Consciousness.<br \/> 41:11 The ethics of brain interventions, zombies, and the Turing test.<br \/> 43:43 LLMs and simulated phenomenology.<br \/> 46:34 The future of consciousness research.<br \/> 48:44 Cultural perspectives on suffering.<br \/> 52:19 AGI and humanity\u2019s future.<br \/> 58:18 Simulation hypothesis.<br \/> 01:03:33 Liquid AI: Innovations and goals.<br \/> 01:16:02 Philosophy of Identity: the Transporter Problem, Is there anything beyond memory records?<\/p>\n<p>Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/joscha-bach-consciousness-and-agi\">Continue reading \u201cJoscha Bach: Consciousness and AGI\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 the philosophy of mind. Links of interest: \u2022 http:\/\/bach.ai\/ \u2022 https:\/\/twitter.com\/Plinz. Steve and Joscha discuss: 00:00 Introduction. 01:26 Growing up in the forest in East Germany. 06:23 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207876","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=207876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}