Joscha Bach (born 1973) is a German cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher known for his work on cognitive architectures, artificial intelligence, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, multi-agent systems, and philosophy of mind.

Artificial Intelligence provides a conceptual framework to understand mind and universe in new ways, clearing the obstacles that hindered the progress of philosophy and psychology. Let us see how AI can help us to understand how our minds create the experience of a universe. The question: “Who are we?”:

Joscha Bach, PhD [email protected] Cognitive scientist/AI researcher; main focus on AGI, cognitive architectures, models of emotion and motivation. Principal author of the cognitive architecture MicroPsi. Wrote the book “Principles of Synthetic Intelligence” (OUP 2009). Address: 7 E Creek Place Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA Phone: +1 617 669 ...

Sep 4, 2018 · Joscha Bach’s lifelong quest to achieve strong artificial intelligence spurred him to develop a cognitive architecture with a focus on aesthetics and emotion.

Mar 24, 2025 · Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist focusing on cognitive architectures, consciousness, models of mental representation, emotion, motivation and sociality.

Joscha Bach is the VP research for AI foundation. He works and writes about cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and multi-agent systems.

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Dr. Joscha Bach (MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics) is an AI researcher who works and writes about cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion,...

From elementary computation to ethics? Some preliminary thoughts and arguments on the feasibility of ultimate norms, starting from a foundation of general computationalism. Do we live in a simulation or in the base reality? Elon Musk recently suggested that we likely do not live in a base reality, but in a simulation.