Quotes from: https://lexfridman.com/joscha-bach/
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4/ "what spirit actually means: it's an operating system for an autonomous robot. And when the word was invented, people needed this word. But they didn't have robots that built themselves yet"
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5/ "An organism is not a collection of cells — it is a function that tells cells how to behave. "
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6/ "Happiness is a cookie that your brain bakes for itself. It's not made by the environment. The environment cannot make you happy. It's your appraisal of the environment that makes you happy."
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7/ "In this sense, intelligence and life are very strongly connected because the purpose of intelligence is to allow control under conditions of complexity"
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8/ "I don't think that God has anything to do with creation. ... I think that Genesis is actually the childhood memories of a god. It's basically a mind that is remembering how it came into being."
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8 (cont)/ "We typically interpret Genesis as the creation of a physical universe by a supernatural being… there is light and darkness that is being created. And then you discover sky and ground —you give everything their names and so on. That's basic cognitive development. "
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(h/t) to
@Kpaxs 's knowledge graph:https://twitter.com/Kpaxs/status/1332724514686455808?s=20 …
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