Computational Meta-Psychology

Watch the 3rd installment of the series From Computation to Consciousness by Joscha Bach below.

Computational theories of the mind seem to be ideally suited to explain rationality. But how can computations be subverted by meaning, emotion, and love?

The Chaos Communication Congress Talks

In 2013, I attended the 30c3 to deliver a lecture on how to build Artificial Intelligence to an audience of hackers. The Chaos Communication Congress is a fascinating venue because it combines very smart and curious attendants with an opportunity to present ideas in a format that is unconstrained by our usual academic habits. It was so not only a lot of fun, but also helpful to express a lot of ideas that I would not have fixated anywhere else, and so I continued to produce presentations in the following years.

The xxC3 talks are attempts at answering the questions of the me that entered academia to learn about what minds are, and how they relate to the world. I still have these questions, but I have dug a few tunnels into the bedrock of my ignorance over the years, and I would like to show you where they have led me.