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Is There Really a Hard Problem of Consciousness? - Dr. Joscha Bach, Artificial Intelligence Researcher

The DemystifySci Podcast

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The Relationship Between Language, Meaning and Mathematics

For me, a causal explanation is something I can make. And if you look at the world of the objects around you, the physical world, I can make something that looks a lot like this in a computer. This can all be described in a framework where we use finite automata inside of a computer to perform mathematical transitions. What they explain is the causal structure of elements that I get when I decompose the universe into several objects. That is a perspective that I introduced by introducing boundaries between objects in my model. And then I'm able to make the universe manageable. It might be difficult to solve all the puzzles involved to get from quantum effects to a relativistic space time and so

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