{"id":1859,"date":"2025-01-02T11:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T09:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2025-10-12T09:10:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T07:10:52","slug":"joscha-bach-why-your-thoughts-arent-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/2025\/01\/02\/joscha-bach-why-your-thoughts-arent-yours\/","title":{"rendered":"Joscha Bach &#8211; Why Your Thoughts Aren&#8217;t Yours."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_31411\"  width=\"840\" height=\"472\"  data-origwidth=\"840\" data-origheight=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3MkJEGE9GRY?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Dr. Joscha Bach discusses advanced AI, consciousness, and cognitive modeling. He presents consciousness as a virtual property emerging from self-organizing software patterns, challenging panpsychism and materialism. Bach introduces &#8220;Cyberanima,&#8221; reinterpreting animism through information processing, viewing spirits as self-organizing software agents. He addresses limitations of current large language models and advocates for smaller, more efficient AI models capable of reasoning from first principles. Bach describes his work with Liquid AI on novel neural network architectures for improved expressiveness and efficiency. The interview covers AI&#8217;s societal implications, including regulation challenges and impact on innovation. Bach argues for balancing oversight with technological progress, warning against overly restrictive regulations. Throughout, Bach frames consciousness, intelligence, and agency as emergent properties of complex information processing systems, proposing a computational framework for cognitive phenomena and reality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/sample\/B08PJPQB8K?clientId=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/sample\/B08PJPQB8K?clientId=share<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Joscha Bach discusses advanced AI, consciousness, and cognitive modeling. He presents consciousness as a virtual property emerging from self-organizing software patterns, challenging panpsychism and materialism. Bach introduces &#8220;Cyberanima,&#8221; reinterpreting animism through information processing, viewing spirits as self-organizing software agents. He addresses limitations of current large language models and advocates for smaller, more efficient AI &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/2025\/01\/02\/joscha-bach-why-your-thoughts-arent-yours\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joscha Bach &#8211; Why Your Thoughts Aren&#8217;t Yours.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,114,87,41,14],"tags":[107,112,32,24,78,33,4],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-biology-ecology","category-lectures","category-neuroscience","category-philosophy","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-biology","tag-brain","tag-consciousness","tag-lectures","tag-neuro-science","tag-philosophy","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1223,"url":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/2023\/04\/22\/myth-of-myself-alan-watts\/","url_meta":{"origin":1859,"position":0},"title":"Myth of myself &#8211; Alan Watts","author":"admin","date":"April 22, 2023","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/W0qRdySBDQA","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/category\/truth\/books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/W0qRdySBDQA\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4265,"url":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/megahertz-brain-waves-microtubule-time-crystals-and-the-physics-of-consciousness-stuart-hameroff\/","url_meta":{"origin":1859,"position":1},"title":"Megahertz Brain Waves, Microtubule Time Crystals, and the Physics of Consciousness | Stuart Hameroff","author":"admin","date":"December 20, 2025","format":"video","excerpt":"\u201cConsciousness may not emerge from neurons firing \u2014 it may be the quantum music playing inside them.\u201d At Deep Tech Week San Francisco 2025, Dr. Stuart Hameroff, anesthesiologist, professor, and co-creator of the Orch-OR theory of consciousness with Sir Roger Penrose, delivers a mind-bending exploration into the quantum physics of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Lectures&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Lectures","link":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/category\/truth\/lectures\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1128,"url":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/2023\/04\/09\/artificial-intelligence-chat-gpt-and-buddhist-non-self\/","url_meta":{"origin":1859,"position":2},"title":"Artificial Intelligence (Chat-GPT) and Buddhist Non-Self","author":"admin","date":"April 9, 2023","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hp0zpOYkqMI What does artificial intelligence have to tell us about the central Buddhist teaching of non-self? 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