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The AI theorist who thinks consciousness is a software agent — and that God, AGI, and the apocalypse are all pointing at the same thing.
What you call "the world" isn't outside you. It's a simulation your brain produces. And the self that experiences it may not exist the way you think it does.
Joscha Bach is an AI researcher and cognitive scientist working at the intersection of computation, consciousness, and the architecture of the mind. He's one of the few thinkers willing to explain what experience actually is in mechanistic terms, without retreating to mysticism or hand-waving.
The AI theorist who thinks consciousness is a software agent — and that God, AGI, and the apocalypse are all pointing at the same thing.
What you call "the world" isn't outside you. It's a simulation your brain produces. And the self that experiences it may not exist the way you think it does.
Joscha Bach is an AI researcher and cognitive scientist working at the intersection of computation, consciousness, and the architecture of the mind. He's one of the few thinkers willing to explain what experience actually is in mechanistic terms, without retreating to mysticism or hand-waving.
