Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2020-06-13
Books mentioned on #101 – Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality
Joscha Bach is the VP of Research at the AI Foundation, previously doing research at MIT and Harvard. Joscha work explores the workings of the human mind, intelligence, consciousness, life on Earth, and the possibly-simulated fabric of our universe.
Joscha Bach discussed Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Fire & Blood by George R. R. Martin, The World of Ice & Fire by George R. R. Martin and others, Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Solaris by Stanisław Lem. Lex Fridman discussed The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein is a dense and revolutionary philosophical text exploring the intricate relationship between language, thought, and the boundaries of what can be meaningfully expressed.
Discussed“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”
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Discussed“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”
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Fire & Blood
Fire & Blood by George R.
Discussed“so if you look at the book by say george RR martin with the characters have plausible psychology”
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The World of Ice & Fire
George R.
Discussed“so if you look at the book by say george RR martin with the characters have plausible psychology”
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Philosophical Investigations
Discussed“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”
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The Denial of Death
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning philosophical and psychological study that argues human behavior is fundamentally driven by an unconscious terror of mortality and the subsequent cultural mechanisms created to deny it.
Discussed“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”
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Solaris
Solaris by Stanisław Lem is a classic science fiction novel about a scientific research station hovering above an enigmatic, sentient ocean planet that manifests the deeply repressed psychological traumas of the human crew.
Discussed“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”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
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