Computers and Minds

COMPUTERS AND MINDS

The Human Mind Project

University of Edinburgh, Friday 21 November, 2014

Speakers

Andy Clark (Edinburgh)

Frances Egan (Rutgers)

Anil Seth (Sussex)

Murray Shanahan (Imperial College London)

Aaron Sloman (Birmingham)

Sethu Vijayakumar (Edinburgh)

The next public event of The Human Mind Project will take place in Edinburgh as part of Being Human, the UK’s first national festival of the humanities. “Computers and Minds” will bring together leading academics to discuss the current state of the art of research at the interface of philosophy, computational neuroscience, robotics and artificial intelligence. The one-day event will feature a specialist workshop with talks by leading academics on computational theories of mind, the cognitive neuroscience of self-consciousness and body awareness, and the implications of the latest advances in artificial intelligence for understanding the human mind. The workshop will be followed in the early evening by a public event, with a presentation and demonstration on robotics by Sethu Vijayakumar and a lecture by Andy Clark entitled "Being and Computing: Are You Your Brain, and Is Your Brain a Computer?”

The Human Mind Project highlights the contribution of the arts and humanities to the study of human nature, and the importance of a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to understanding the mind, integrating science and the humanities.

Registration and Scientific Organization

Attendance is free of charge, but space is limited. Please visit the event page on the website of Being Human and register on Eventbrite:

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/computers-and-minds-tickets-12665600151

This conference is sponsored by The Human Mind Project and organized by Mattia Gallotti (University of London) and Sanjay Modgil (King’s College London). For further information, contact [email protected].