#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: – Numerai: https://numer.ai/lex – Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex to get special savings – MasterClass: https://masterclass.com/lex to get 15% off – AG1: https://drinkag1.com/lex to get 1 month supply of fish oil Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/joscha-bach-3-transcript EPISODE LINKS: Joscha’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Plinz Joscha’s Website: http://bach.ai Joscha’s Substack: https://substack.com/@joscha PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/lexfridman YouTube Clips: https://youtube.com/lexclips SUPPORT & CONNECT: – Check out the sponsors above, it’s the best way to support this podcast – Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman – Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman – Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman – LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman – Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman – Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman OUTLINE: Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. (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