#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans

Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/joscha-bach-3-transcript

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(06:26) - Stages of life
(18:48) - Identity
(25:24) - Enlightenment
(31:55) - Adaptive Resonance Theory
(38:42) - Panpsychism
(48:42) - How to think
(56:36) - Plants communication
(1:14:31) - Fame
(1:40:09) - Happiness
(1:47:26) - Artificial consciousness
(1:59:35) - Suffering
(2:04:19) - Eliezer Yudkowsky
(2:11:55) - e/acc (Effective Accelerationism)
(2:17:33) - Mind uploading
(2:28:22) - Vision Pro
(2:32:36) - Open source AI
(2:45:29) - Twitter
(2:52:44) - Advice for young people
(2:55:40) - Meaning of life