The 2024 conference was organised in Helsinki on June 11-12 2024.
See the conference website for more information about the programme and keynote speakers.
Professor Anil Seth (University of Sussex) visited the University of Helsinki at the end of April 2024. He gave a public talk on “Consciousness in humans and in other things”.
See more information about the talk in Mind and Matter news.
The programme consisted of invited talks by researchers from eight European universities or institutions, chaired by Mind and Matter researchers.
See the seminar webpage for more information about the invited speakers and their topics.
Invited speakers gave insightful talks followed by lively discussions on topics ranging from neuroscience of music to AI-extenders and much more.
See the seminar webpage for more information.
The conference, organised in Helsinki on 6-8 June 2023, focused on the themes of Minds with Language, Perception, Motivation and Cognitive Control, Crossdisciplinary Influences in the Study of the Mind, and Dreaming and Consciousness. Find out more on the conference website.
Local researchers gave a series of thought-provoking talks on topics ranging from quantum software to colour perception. See the seminar webpage for more information.
A series of public lectures on topics related to AI, digitalisation, and the human mind. More details at https://www.helsinki.fi/fi/hakeminen-ja-opetus/avoin-yliopisto/studia-generalia.
Mind and Matter organised a workshop on how transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS) can be used to manipulate how brain rhythms synchronize to external auditory input, and to control brain-to-brain synchronization. See more details in Mind and Matter news.
Mind and Matter Talks invites renowned scholars with fresh insights into the themes of information, intelligence, and consciousness to share their research in conversation with UH researchers. See the Mind and Matter Talks page for more information on the talks that took place in 2022.
Professors Gerit Pfuhl (cognitive science) and Michael Paul Morreau (philosophy) from the Arctic University of Tromsø gave talks hosted by Mind and Matter associate professor Ben Cowley. More information about the event can be found in Mind and Matter news.
The first Mind and Matter conference was organised in Helsinki on 16-18 June 2022. Find out more on the conference website.
In what sense might artificial intelligences be able to understand, be creative or even conscious? What kinds of societal implications are to be expected from the rapid developments in artificial intelligence and neuroscience? Can we understand the deep nature of matter and information down to the quantum level? Researchers of the Mind and Matter profiling area presented their exciting research at the Mind and Matter seminar.