Why Leibniz Couldn't Find the Mind Inside the Mill (Joscha Bach)

Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist and the founder of the California Institute for Machine Consciousness.SPONSOR:---Parallel is a single platform for all your agentic research: web search built for AI agents, with Pareto-optimal quality, cost and speed.Get started: https://parallel.ai/mlst---Bach's null hypothesis is that consciousness is easy: an algorithm not much more complicated than the transformer, simple enough for an infant's brain to discover by itself. In this conversation with Tim,