Can we build a mind, and if so, what would that tell us about who we are? AI researcher Joscha Bach argues that the path to artificial general intelligence runs through understanding the mind as a model-making system in the service of organismic regulation , and that current deep learning, while surprisingly powerful, has not yet solved the fundamental problems of grounding, abduction, and epistemic autonomy. Subscribe for more from the Convergent Science Network podcast series. Joscha Bach joins Paul Verschure and Tony Prescott for a wide-ranging debate on the nature of intelligence, the limits of current AI, and what it would take to build a system with a mind similar to our own. Bach frames intelligence as function approximation , the ability to identify meaning by discovering relationships between patterns , and sketches a progression from ha ...