{"id":231715,"date":"2026-02-20T10:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/whats-wrong-with-panpsychism-joscha-bach"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:12:10","slug":"whats-wrong-with-panpsychism-joscha-bach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/whats-wrong-with-panpsychism-joscha-bach","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Wrong with Panpsychism? | Joscha Bach"},"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\/rP_gelNFSV8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3v8OhY7\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3v8OhY7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Main Channel: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@robinsonerhardt\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@robinsonerhardt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Full Episode: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XcNlv9gp20o\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/XcNlv9gp20o<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson\u2019s Podcast #219 \u2014 Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Threat of AI Apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p>Joscha Bach is a computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher currently working with Liquid AI. He has previously done research at Harvard, MIT, Intel, and the AI Foundation. In this episode, Joscha and Robinson discuss the nature of consciousness\u2014both in humans and synthetic\u2014various theories of consciousness like panpsychism, physicalism, dualism, and Roger Penrose\u2019s, the distinction between intelligence and artificial intelligence, the next developments of ChatGPT and other LLMs, OpenAI, and whether advances in AI will spell the end of humankind.<\/p>\n<p>Joscha\u2019s X: \u2060<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Plinz\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Plinz<\/a>\u2060<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/whats-wrong-with-panpsychism-joscha-bach\">Continue reading \u201cWhat\u2019s Wrong with Panpsychism? | Joscha Bach\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patreon: https:\/\/bit.ly\/3v8OhY7 Main Channel: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@robinsonerhardt. Full Episode: https:\/\/youtu.be\/XcNlv9gp20o. Robinson\u2019s Podcast #219 \u2014 Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Threat of AI Apocalypse. Joscha Bach is a computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher currently working with Liquid AI. He has previously done research at Harvard, MIT, Intel, and the AI Foundation. In this episode, Joscha and Robinson [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231715","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=231715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}