{"id":237759,"date":"2026-05-26T15:17:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/the-learnable-universe"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:17:55","slug":"the-learnable-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/the-learnable-universe","title":{"rendered":"The Learnable Universe"},"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\/_KG856Xv7P8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Treating AI as a philosophical project by Joscha Bach.<\/p>\n<p>Why do we find ourselves in a universe that has learnable properties? How is it possible for a symbol to mean something? What is the relationship between observation, perception and knowledge? What is agency? What constitutes a self model?<\/p>\n<p>When we approach Artificial Intelligence as a philosophical project, we gain a fascinating and useful perspective on age-old questions of philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>This short presentation will touch on some of these questions and aims to open up a broader space for discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Our speaker, Joscha Bach, PhD, is a cognitive scientist and AI researcher specializing in computational models of cognition and neuro-symbolic AI.<\/p>\n<p>He has taught and worked in AI research at Humboldt University of Berlin, the Institute for Cognitive Science in Osnabr\u00fcck, the MIT Media Lab, the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/the-learnable-universe\">Continue reading \u201cThe Learnable Universe\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treating AI as a philosophical project by Joscha Bach. Why do we find ourselves in a universe that has learnable properties? How is it possible for a symbol to mean something? What is the relationship between observation, perception and knowledge? What is agency? What constitutes a self model? When we approach Artificial Intelligence as a [\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-237759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237759","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=237759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}