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From: Joscha Bach To: "Jeffrey E." <[email protected]> Cc: Richard Kahn Subject: Re: Funds and Research Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 18:47:30 +0000 Thank you! Joscha Am 06.10.2014 um 14:31 schrieb jeffrey E. <[email protected]>: send him 25k , joscha lets speak later int the week On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Joscha Bach < wrote: Dear Jeffrey, we have run out of funds again to pay our rent... Could I ask you for about 25K until the end of 2014, or 50K for the period until April, please? Thank you! Some research is coming along, btw. I have joined a group around psychiatrist/neuro-scientist Justin Brewer that tries to understand which parts of the brain and mind play a role for consciousness. I have got an intern to help me with programming a user interface to our cognitive architecture, and I am thinking about building tangible neural networks for the Media Lab, so people can play around with artificial neural networks and understand them without having a background in computer science. At PED, I am continuing some experiments with evolutionary simulation of nonreciprocal cooperation. One of my current interests is in understanding music cognition. I have identified a few dimensions that make music delectable (such as psychophysically pleasurable patterns, abstract structure discovery, trance induction, social side effects etc.) and check into how I can model music with grammars and predictive models. Reading Arbib's excellent new book (Music, Language and the Brain). Marvin has sent a short message, so I assume that he is alive and that there is hope that I am going to meet him one of these days. Max Tegmark has invited me to a small conference with smart people on the future of AI in San Juan, early next year, which is certainly going to be fun. Thank you for making all of this possible! Bests Joscha please note EFTA00998068 The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to [email protected], and destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved EFTA00998069