📚 6 Books mentioned in "Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101" of Lex Fridman Podcast

Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast
Episode: Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101
Published on June 13, 2020
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!

Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
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and there's a much darker one Eugene a story what happened so when Dean is a mermaid or a water woman she lives on ground off a river and she meets this prince and they fall enough
Joscha Bach describes a darker version of a water spirit story, likely Undine, contrasting it with Andersen's Little Mermaid.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
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If you read the attract address It's a very beautiful book but capacity one salt on 75 pages it's very non typical for philosophy because it doesn't have arguments in it and it doesn't have references in it
Joscha Bach mentions reading this book by Wittgenstein and describes its unique style and content.

Philosophical Investigations
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The thing that Wittgenstein couldn't solve and he looked at this in his book at the end of his life philosophical investigations was the notion of images
Joscha Bach mentions this book by Wittgenstein in the context of problems Wittgenstein explored late in his life.

Solaris
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and basically LEM Solaris I am a thinking planet yes but I will not replicate because I cannot recreate the conditions of my own existence somewhere else
Joscha Bach mentions the book/author in the context of a thinking planet idea.

The Denial of Death
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it seems to me the like I would like for me it was a really interesting moment reading Ernest Becker's denial of death the you know there's this kind of idea that we're all you know the fundamental thing from which most of our human mind Springs is this fear of mortality
Lex Fridman mentions reading this book by Ernest Becker and its idea about the fear of mortality.

The Nature of the Beast
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and then you tell her the original story which is not the one by Anderson which is the romantic one and there's a much darker one Eugene a story what happened
Joscha Bach discusses telling his daughter the original story by Andersen, contrasting it with the Disney version.