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Joscha Bach on Intelligence, Existence, Time, and Consciousness

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

CHAPTER

What Is Intelligence?

The purpose of consciousness is the direction of attention, but also at the same time it was the story that the brain tells itself. So in this thermostat example, what is the story that's being told? And what is intelligence in this? Is it just the ability to model for the generation of more models,. Whether or not they're predictive or whether or not they fit?"

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