# Joscha Bach **Domain:** Cognitive Architecture / Artificial Intelligence / Philosophy of Mind **Doc Type:** Person Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[wiki/Cognitive Architecture|Cognitive Architecture]], [[wiki/Recursive Self-Model|Recursive Self-Model]], [[wiki/Mechanistic Intelligence|Mechanistic Intelligence]] --- ## Definition **Joscha Bach** is a cognitive scientist and AI researcher known for work on computational cognitive architectures, including MicroPsi, and for mechanistic accounts of motivation, emotion, mental representation, and self-modeling. ## Corpus Context [[articles/Mechanistic Intelligence Is Humanity's Greatest Liberation|Mechanistic Intelligence Is Humanity's Greatest Liberation]] uses Bach's functional account of consciousness as an important contemporary formulation of [[wiki/Mechanistic Intelligence|Mechanistic Intelligence]]. The article accepts the architectural claim that consciousness can emerge from recursively available self-modeling and control while preserving its own vocabulary for embodiment, material process, and continuity. ## Sources / Provenance - [Joscha Bach — personal site](https://bach.ai/) - [Joscha Bach — curriculum vitae](https://bach.ai/pub/CV%20Joscha%20Bach.pdf) ## See Also [[wiki/Cognitive Architecture|Cognitive Architecture]] · [[wiki/Recursive Self-Model|Recursive Self-Model]] · [[wiki/Self-Reference|Self-Reference]] · [[wiki/Mechanistic Intelligence|Mechanistic Intelligence]] · [[wiki/Consciousness Emergence|Consciousness Emergence]]