From: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> To: "S.M. Kosslyn" Subject: Re: Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:47:46 +0000 if you will be there for a few days i will bring him in, he is the first really new smartee in a while On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:44 PM, S.M. Kosslyn < > wrote: Thanks for your speedy reply, Joscha... Your interests and mine do in fact have a huge overlap. I would enjoy meeting you. I was in Berlin last year (at Humbolt), but have no plans to return soon. I do plan on being in New York with some frequency, so perhaps we might have a chance to get together there. Let's stay in touch. With best wishes, s. JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ S.M. Kosslyn On 4 Feb 2013, at 4:27 PM, Joscha Bach wrote: Thank you very much for that offer, Stephen! — I live in Berlin, though, so meeting up in person will require a bit of organizational effort. It is quite likely that I will be in the area again soon. I am very interested in integrating cognition, ie building cognitive architectures, understanding the nature and organization of mental representation on a functional (not necessarily neurobiological) level, and somewhere down the road I would like to learn more about the emergence of visual/perceptual grammars, mental simulation, and the genesis of language. I think I have some basic understanding how to build a computational model of motivation (helpful for attaching relevance to mental content, and providing reinforcement signals for open-ended learning, social interaction and exploration), and how to conceive of affect as a configuration of cognitive modulators. (I wrote a cognitive architecture, MicroPsi, and a book on the topic, called "Principles of Synthetic Intelligence", from OUP.) Cheers, Joscha Thanks, Jeffrey! EFTA00953865