{"id":232976,"date":"2026-03-10T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/joscha-bach-delivers-the-machine-consciousness-hypothesis-at-future-day-2026"},"modified":"2026-03-10T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:16:00","slug":"joscha-bach-delivers-the-machine-consciousness-hypothesis-at-future-day-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/joscha-bach-delivers-the-machine-consciousness-hypothesis-at-future-day-2026","title":{"rendered":"Joscha Bach delivers \u201cThe Machine Consciousness Hypothesis\u201d at Future Day 2026"},"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\/Bjo9pIpw79k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Can AI become conscious?<\/p>\n<p>What is consciousness for? And is biological consciousness best understood as a self-organising algorithm that could, in principle, be recreated in machines?<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, Joscha explores consciousness as perception of perception, coherence maintenance, modelling, resonance, self-organisation, and the possibility that machine consciousness may emerge through the right virtual architecture.<\/p>\n<p>Essay: \u2018The Machine Consciousness Hypothesis\u2019 by Joscha Bach &amp; Hikari Sorenson: <a href=\"https:\/\/cimc.ai\/cimcHypothesis.pdf\">https:\/\/cimc.ai\/cimcHypothesis.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CIMC: <a href=\"https:\/\/cimc.ai\">https:\/\/cimc.ai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/scifuture.org\/joscha-bach-the\">https:\/\/scifuture.org\/joscha-bach-the<\/a>\u2026 Intro<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/joscha-bach-delivers-the-machine-consciousness-hypothesis-at-future-day-2026\">Continue reading \u201cJoscha Bach delivers \u201cThe Machine Consciousness Hypothesis\u201d at Future Day 2026\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can AI become conscious? What is consciousness for? And is biological consciousness best understood as a self-organising algorithm that could, in principle, be recreated in machines? In this talk, Joscha explores consciousness as perception of perception, coherence maintenance, modelling, resonance, self-organisation, and the possibility that machine consciousness may emerge through the right virtual architecture. Essay: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3818,41,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-blockchains","category-information-science","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232976","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=232976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}