Joscha Bach on the dream chocolate that stopped being real
Machine Learning Street Talk · youtube · 2026-11-04
In an MLST short, Joscha Bach recounts a dream from age two or three: waking just before eating an imagined chocolate, he retained all knowledge of it but lost its realness; falling asleep again restored the taste. Only the illusion of realness had vanished—a parable about consciousness from his full conversation.
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