Why Leibniz Couldn't Find the Mind Inside the Mill (Joscha Bach)

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Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist and the founder of the California Institute for Machine Consciousness. SPONSOR: --- Parallel is a single platform for all your agentic research: web search built for AI agents, with Pareto-optimal quality, cost and speed. Get started: https://parallel.ai/mlst --- Bach’s null hypothesis is that consciousness is easy: an algorithm not much more complicated than the transformer, simple enough for an infant’s brain to discover by itself. In this conversation with Tim, he lays out the Machine Consciousness Hypothesis in two parts. The first is that consciousness is a biological learning algorithm, the training algorithm that makes a brain like ours coherent. T…