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LISBON MIND COGNITION & KNOWLEDGE GROUP

Research & Projects
​Self and Consciousness

Our group grew out of joint research interests on consciousness and the self and the IFL funded collaborative project The Cognitive Foundations of the Self. The relationship between the self and consciousness remains an important focus of group activities. Ongoing research which was initiated in this project includes the Sarsaw webtool.

However our interests in consciousness are wide including such other questions as the nature of perceptual consciousness, altered states of consciousness, the role of the body in consciousness, criteria for attributing consciousness phenomenology and  machine consciousness.

Some major foci are 

Self and Self-Consciousness

Altered States of Self

Artificial Consciousness

Recent Activities
Self and the Social, 6th and 7th March, 2014
Neurophilosophy, Self and Brain Workshop, 17th and 18th February, 2014
Theories of Self, 24th October, 2013
Altered Self and Altered Self-Experience Workshop 30th and the 31st of May of 2013
Workshop with Shaun Gallagher March 1 - 2, 2012

Future Activities
Ongoing activities are centered around developing a new project around self, mental illness and schizophrenia.

Selected related publications by group members
Pereira, V., Faísca, L., & Sá-Saraiva, R. (submitted, under revision). Representing the self after death: afterlife beliefs and self-experience.

Fonseca, J. & Gonçalves, J. (Eds) Philosophical Perspectives on  the Self, Peter Lang, (Forthcoming 2014), including


  • Fonseca, J.  “Empirical and conceptual clarifications regarding the notion of ‘Core-Self’ from Gallagher’s and Merker’s Behavioural-Neuroscientific Proposals.”
  • Clowes, R. W. . Virtualist Representation and The Actualization of Self.
  • Add others (...)



Pereira, V., Faísca, L., & Sá-Saraiva, R. (2012). Immortality of the Soul as an Intuitive Idea: Towards a psychological explanation of the origins of afterlife beliefs. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 12, 101-128.
Clowes, R. W., & Chrisley, R. (2012). Virtualist Representation. International Journal of Machine Consciousness, 04(02), 503-522. (link)
Chrisley, R., Clowes, R. W., & Torrance, S. (Eds.). (2011). Proceedings of the AISB Symposium on Machine Consciousness: Self, Integration and Explanation: The University of York. (link)
Clowes, R. W. (2011). Review of Zoltan Torey's The Crucible of Consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 18(7-8), 250-258.

Fonseca, J. & Gartner, K. (2009) “The Relativity of the Identity of the Self”, in The Reasoner, vol. 3, number 9, 8-9.
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Clowes, R. W., & Seth, A. (2008). Axioms, properties and criteria: Roles for synthesis in the science of consciousness. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 44(2), 91-104.
Torrance, S., Clowes, R., & Chrisley, R. (Eds.). (2007). Machine Consciousness: Embodiment and Imagination, Special Issue of Journal of Consciousness Studies (Vol. 14, Number 7).
Clowes, R. W. (2007). A Self-Regulation Model of Inner Speech and its Role in the Organisation of Human Conscious Experience. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 14(7), 59-71.
Clowes, R. W., Chrisley, R., & Torrance, S. (2006). Proceedings of the Symposium on Integrative Approaches to Machine Consciousness, AISB-06. Bristol: University of Bristol.

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  • People
    • Gloria Andrada
    • Robert Clowes
    • Guido Tana
    • Ricardo N. Henriques
    • Klaus Gaertner
    • Steven Gouveia
    • Inês Hipólito
    • Florian Franken Figuereido
    • Jorge Gonçalves
    • Dina Mendonça
    • João Sardo Mourão
    • Paul Smart
    • Nuno Venturinha
    • Robert Vinten
    • Camila Lobo
    • Alberto Oya
  • Research & Projects
    • GENAI Project Page
    • Self and Consciousness
    • Cognitive Science and Technology
    • Philosophy of Psychiatry & Mental Illness
    • Workshop on Delusion
  • Events
    • The Mind Technology Problem Symposium >
      • TMTP Programme
    • Workshop: Wittgenstein, Religion, and Cognitive Science. December 15th.
    • REC and its Critics >
      • REC and its Critics
    • Wittgenstein, Nature, and Religion - 2nd ERB Project Workshop
    • Workshop Cognitive, Epistemic and Ethical Dimensions of the Internet 2015
    • Philosophy and Schizophrenia 2017
    • Wittgenstein, Nature, and Religion - 2nd ERB Project Workshop
    • Seminar Louis Sass 2016
    • Workshop with Philip Gerrans 2016
    • Scaling Up the Bayesian Brain
    • The Mechanistic Approach in Biology and Cognition
    • Mind Selves and Technology 2016 >
      • Programme for Minds, Selves and Technology 2016
    • Workshop Perspectivas sobre a Esquizofrenia 2016
    • Arguing With Dan Hutto the Workshop 2015 >
      • Abstracts for Arguing with Dan Hutto 2015
    • European Workshop on the Cognitive Implications of the Internet 2015
    • Thinking About Enculturation
  • Mind & Reasoning RIP Seminar
  • Publications
    • Schizophrenia and Common Sense - Book
    • Mind-Technology Problem CFP
  • Blog
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  • CFP For REC Conference