Draft Schedule for Mind, Selves and 21st Century Technology
On Site Registration (22nd June)
16:30 – 18:30: Registration and Meet-Up.
Av. de Berna, 26 - 4th Floor
1069-061 Lisbon
PORTUGAL
Phone: +351 217 9083 00 - Ext.1527
Map http://www.ifilnova.pt/forms/contact-us
19.30 – Informal Evening social event at
Wine bar:The old pharmacy
-- rua diario de noticias, 73-81
1200-142 lisbon
16:30 – 18:30: Registration and Meet-Up.
Av. de Berna, 26 - 4th Floor
1069-061 Lisbon
PORTUGAL
Phone: +351 217 9083 00 - Ext.1527
Map http://www.ifilnova.pt/forms/contact-us
19.30 – Informal Evening social event at
Wine bar:The old pharmacy
-- rua diario de noticias, 73-81
1200-142 lisbon
Day 1 (23rd of June)
8.30 - 9.20: Registration (Probably on 4th Floor ID, Building, Room to be Confirmed).
9.20 - 9.30: Welcome address from João Sàágua, Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Universidade Nova de Lisboa,
9.30 - 9.40: Introduction, local information. (Local organisers)
9.40 – 12.30: Theme Session, Extended Selves and Self-Knowledge. (Chair Klaus Gärtner)
12.30 – 14.00: Lunch
14.00 – 14.40: On Artificial Intelligence & Enhancement, Keith Frankish via SKYPE. (Chair Robert Clowes)
14.40 – 16.10: Theme Session (Enhancement, Autonomy and Agency) (Chair Richard Heersmink)
16.10 – 16.30: Coffee.
16.30 – 17.10: Poster Spotlight Session. (5 or 6 minutes each) (Chair Inês Hipólito)
17.10 – 18.00: Keynote Talk Susan Schneider: Extended Mind and Machine Consciousness (Chair Robert Clowes)
18.00 – 19.15: Poster Discussion and Wine Reception
19.30 – Visit to famous Barrio Alto Night Life led by a Bavarian
8.30 - 9.20: Registration (Probably on 4th Floor ID, Building, Room to be Confirmed).
9.20 - 9.30: Welcome address from João Sàágua, Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Universidade Nova de Lisboa,
9.30 - 9.40: Introduction, local information. (Local organisers)
9.40 – 12.30: Theme Session, Extended Selves and Self-Knowledge. (Chair Klaus Gärtner)
- Richard Heersmink - The distributed self. (09:40 - 10.10)
- Lukas Schwengerer - Knowing yourself by looking at your smartphone.(10.10 – 10.40)
- Coffee. (10.40 - 11.00)
- Brie Gertler - Extended Minds and the Mark of the Mental (11.00 – 11.30)
- Robert Clowes – Slow, Continuous Uploading: Super-selves and alternative routes to personal immortality. (11.30 – 12.00)
- Georg Theiner. Extended Minds en route to Transhuman Subjects: The Bostrom-Clark-Fuller Express. (12.00 - 12.30)
12.30 – 14.00: Lunch
14.00 – 14.40: On Artificial Intelligence & Enhancement, Keith Frankish via SKYPE. (Chair Robert Clowes)
14.40 – 16.10: Theme Session (Enhancement, Autonomy and Agency) (Chair Richard Heersmink)
- Paul Smart, Kieron O'Hara and Wendy Hall. Predicting Me, Experiencing Us: Predictive Processing, Big Data and the Mind of Society. (14.40 – 15.10)
- Frederic Gilbert, Predictive brain implants: A potential threat to autonomy and self? (15.10 – 15.40)
- Michelle Ciurria, Practical Justice Initiative at the University of New South Wales, Responsible Agency and Moral Enhancement: The permissible Scope of Moral Engineering. (15.40 – 16.10)
16.10 – 16.30: Coffee.
16.30 – 17.10: Poster Spotlight Session. (5 or 6 minutes each) (Chair Inês Hipólito)
- Nolan Gertz: The Master-ISlave Dialectic.
- Steven S. Gouveia and Diana Neiva: Mind-Uploading: the problem of consciousness 2.0.
- Tom Buller: Brain-Machine Interfaces and the Conditions of Agency.
- Marco Fasoli: Forgetting cognitive artifacts: is there any valid reason for excluding artifacts from the cognitive enhancement debate?
- Silvano Colombano: Artificial Consciousness as a Byproduct of Modeling Behaviour.
- Nathan Hauthaler: Extended practical reasoning and practical knowledge.
- Anastasia Kozyreva, Probabilistic models of mind: addressing the gap between perception
and decision-making under uncertainty - Danil Razeev, Free Will: Illusion or Reality?
17.10 – 18.00: Keynote Talk Susan Schneider: Extended Mind and Machine Consciousness (Chair Robert Clowes)
18.00 – 19.15: Poster Discussion and Wine Reception
19.30 – Visit to famous Barrio Alto Night Life led by a Bavarian
Day 2 (24th of June)
09.30 – 10.10 Ron Chrisley Machine Consciousness: Moving beyond “Is it Possible?” (Chair Robert Clowes)
10.10 – 11.40 Theme Session on Uploading & Super-Intelligence (Chair Dina Mendonça)
Christopher Brown. Mind Uploading and Persistence (10.10 – 10.40)
Joseph Corabi Superintelligent AI and Skepticism (10.40 – 11.10)
Uziel Awret - What kind of machines would refuse destructive uploading? (11.10 – 11.40)
11.40 – 12.00 Coffee Break
12.00 – 12.40 – Emergent Mental Phenomena Mark H. Bickhard. (Chair Ron Chrisley)
12.40 – 14.30 – Lunch
14.30 – 16-00 - Theme Session: Virtual Reality and Living in a Computer Simulation. (Chair Franck Lihoreau)
15:30 - 16.10: Invited Speaker (Gualtiero Piccinini University of Missouri - St. Louis), The Myth of Mind Uploading (Chair Nuno Venturinha)
16.10 - 16.40: Coffee (In poster room, posters come down)
16.40 - 17.20: Gerald Vision Consciousness—Philosophy’s Great White Whale. (Chair Robert Clowes)
17.20 - 18.20: Keynote Talk: Is the mind software? is it physical? metaphysics of mind for the 21st century Susan Schneider (Chair Robert Clowes)
18.20 - 18.30: Conference Closing.
20.00 -22.00 Conference Dinner at Casa do Alentejo
09.30 – 10.10 Ron Chrisley Machine Consciousness: Moving beyond “Is it Possible?” (Chair Robert Clowes)
10.10 – 11.40 Theme Session on Uploading & Super-Intelligence (Chair Dina Mendonça)
Christopher Brown. Mind Uploading and Persistence (10.10 – 10.40)
Joseph Corabi Superintelligent AI and Skepticism (10.40 – 11.10)
Uziel Awret - What kind of machines would refuse destructive uploading? (11.10 – 11.40)
11.40 – 12.00 Coffee Break
12.00 – 12.40 – Emergent Mental Phenomena Mark H. Bickhard. (Chair Ron Chrisley)
12.40 – 14.30 – Lunch
14.30 – 16-00 - Theme Session: Virtual Reality and Living in a Computer Simulation. (Chair Franck Lihoreau)
- Grace Helton. Skepticism and Solipsism (14.30 – 15.00)
- Paweł Grabarczyk and Marek Pokropski Is full bodily immersion in virtual reality possible? Maximizing presence in virtual reality through affordances. (15.00 – 15.30)
15:30 - 16.10: Invited Speaker (Gualtiero Piccinini University of Missouri - St. Louis), The Myth of Mind Uploading (Chair Nuno Venturinha)
16.10 - 16.40: Coffee (In poster room, posters come down)
16.40 - 17.20: Gerald Vision Consciousness—Philosophy’s Great White Whale. (Chair Robert Clowes)
17.20 - 18.20: Keynote Talk: Is the mind software? is it physical? metaphysics of mind for the 21st century Susan Schneider (Chair Robert Clowes)
18.20 - 18.30: Conference Closing.
20.00 -22.00 Conference Dinner at Casa do Alentejo
Organised by the Lisbon Mind and Cognition Group, Supported by Fundação Luso-Americana & the ARGLAB (of which the Mind and Cognition Group is a part).
Abstract Book:
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