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The speaker argues that path dependence is relevant to reproducing human beings but is not a valid intuition for perfectly deterministic systems that can reproduce sequences of steps at arbitrary fidelity.
Unresolved speaker · Why Leibniz Couldn't Find the Mind Inside the Mill (Joscha Bach) · 2 Nov 2026
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“I think that is true for human beings, but for systems that are perfectly deterministic, that have a completely deterministic substrate, that have the ability to reproduce a sequence of steps at arbitrary fidelity, this is no longer a valid intuition.”25:09Report a misattribution
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