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18:30 – 19:30 CITY OF HELSINKI RECEPTION (Pohjoisesplanadi 11-13, Helsinki)
8:00 REGISTRATION
9:00 WELCOME, PURPOSE & LOGISTICS
Kai Nordlund Vice Rector, University of Helsinki, FIN
Paavo Pylkkänen University of Helsinki, FIN
TOPIC 1: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
9:15 Ron Chrisley University of Sussex, UK
AI Alchemy?: The Limitations and Promise of Large Language Models
10:00 Hannu Toivonen University of Helsinki, FIN
Why Don’t Airplanes Fly South for the Winter? Ruminations on Computational vs. Human Creativity
TOPIC 2: FROM CLASSICAL AI TO QUANTUM APPROACHES
10:30 Bert Kappen Radboud University, NL
Why I think that classical physics cannot explain consciousness
11:00 BREAK 10 MINUTES
11:10 Marilu Chiofalo University of Pisa, IT
A Quantum Model for Numerosity Perception
11:40 Paavo Pylkkänen University of Helsinki, FIN
Information, causation and consciousness in Bohmian quantum ontology
12:10 – 13:15 LUNCH BREAK
TOPIC 3: LEARNING IN AI AND NEUROSCIENCE
13:15 Cameron Buckner University of Houston, USA
Deep Learning and Moderate Empiricism—Philosophical Framework for Transformative Artificial Intelligence
14:00 Riikka Möttönen University of Helsinki, FIN
Unlocking adults’ implicit statistical learning by cognitive depletion
14:30 Minna Huotilainen University of Helsinki, FIN
The learning brain in a material world
15:00 COFFEE BREAK
TOPIC 4: QUANTUM THEORY, INFORMATION AND CONSCIOUSNESS
15:20 KEYNOTE: Sabrina Maniscalco University of Helsinki, FIN
Quantum Walk on Complex Networks: from the Internet to Biological Systems
16:15 Christopher A. Fuchs University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
QBism and William James’s world of pure experience
17:00 BREAK 10 MINUTES
17:10 – 18:00 Larissa Albantakis University of Wisconsin, USA
On the relationship between consciousness, the quantum, and integrated information theory [ONLINE TALK]
18:00 – 20:00 POSTER SESSION with salad and wine
TOPIC 5: CONSCIOUSNESS IN PHILOSOPHY, AI AND NEUROSCIENCE
9:00 Amber Ross University of Florida, USA
From Spot to HAL: How the study of consciousness in animal minds can inform the philosophy of AI
9:45 Tuomas Tahko University of Bristol, UK
What Is Reductionism about Consciousness?
10:30 Alex Carruth University of Helsinki, FIN
How (not) to define ‘physical’
11:00 BREAK 10 MINUTES
11:10 – 12:10 KEYNOTE Sir Roger Penrose University of Oxford, UK
On the Physics of Consciousness [ONLINE TALK]
12:10 LUNCH BREAK
13:15 Lana Kühle Illinois State University, USA
Novel Features in Sensory Perception: An Embodied Account
14:00 Anna-Mari Rusanen and Otto Lappi (with Jesse Kuokkanen and Jami Pekkanen) University of Helsinki, FIN
From Fly Detectors to Action Control: Representations in Reinforcement Learning
14:30 Kristjan Loorits University of Helsinki, Finland
Perspective-Induced Mystery of Consciousness
15:00 COFFEE BREAK
15:20 Anu-Katriina Pesonen University of Helsinki, FIN
Sleeping brain in learning and emotion processing
15:50 Kimmo Alho University of Helsinki, FIN
Brain activity during attention to audiovisual speech
16:20 Martti Vainio University of Helsinki, FIN
Sound-Action Symbolism: Linking the Physical World with Meaning
TOPIC 6: FREE WILL
17:00 – 18:00 KEYNOTE Jenann Ismael Columbia University, USA
Nowhere Else but in the Here and Now; Temporality, incompressibility, and creativity in human action [ONLINE TALK]
TOPIC 7: FREE WILL AND NEUROSCIENCE
9:00 Liad Mudrik Tel Aviv University, IL
Taking a neuroscientific-philosophical approach in studying free will and consciousness
9:45 Hans Liljenström Agora for Biosystems, SWE
On the neurodynamics of intention, decision and free will
10:30 Aku Visala University of Helsinki, FIN
Conscious Access and Moral Responsibility – A Skeptical Challenge
TOPIC 8: THE HUMAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE WORLD
11:10 – 12:10 KEYNOTE Huw Price University of Cambridge, UK
Time for pragmatism
12:10 LUNCH BREAK
13:15 Valtteri Arstila University of Helsinki, FIN
Temporal experiences after the fact?
13:45 Harald Atmanspacher ETH Zürich, Switzerland
The Role of Meaning in Dual-Aspect Monism
14:15 Basil Hiley University College London, UK,
On the notion of active information: an algebraic approach to quantum theory
15:00 COFFEE BREAK
15:20 Mirja Hartimo University of Helsinki, FIN
From a Phenomenological Point of View
15:50 Luigi Acerbi University of Helsinki, FIN (tbc)
Probabilistic machine and human intelligence under extreme resource constraints
16:20 Benjamin Cowley University of Helsinki, FIN
Performance, Physiology, and Predictions in Flow
16:50 BREAK 10 MINUTES
17:00 – 17.45 Daniel Kolak William Paterson University, USA
Alternative One: The Only Observer in the Universe is You [ONLINE TALK]
18:00 CONFERENCE DINNER (optional)
Restaurant Pörssi (Fabianinkatu 14, Helsinki)