NIPS International Workshop for Scientific Study of Consciousness The NIPS international workshop for Scientific Study of Consciousness (NIPS-SSC) will be held at the Okazaki Conference Center (Aichi, Japan) in Sep 19-20, 2009. This workshop is an official satellite event for…
Year: 2009
AAAI 2008 Fall Symposium Series Arlington, Virginia — November 5–7, 2009 The challenge of designing a human-level learner is central to creating a real-life computational equivalent of the human mind. It demands the level of robustness and flexibility of learning…
{mosimage} BICS 2010: Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems Conference Madrid, Spain, July 14-16, 2010 www.bicsconference.org Ricardo Sanz, General Chair Sponsored by ICSC [Due to several requests, the submission deadline for BICS 2010 has been extended to: January 18, 2010] BICS 2010 is a…
First Issue of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness Available The first issue of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness is available online (Vol. 1. Issue 1. June 2009)! This new journal, exclusively dedicated to the field of Machine Consciousness…
According to Damasio, a thing achieves self-awareness when its brain models its body, the outside world, and their interactions. At this point, the thing is self-aware, but only from moment to moment. It is not a very interesting creature. If…
Knowledge, Understanding and Consciousness 12 October 2009, St. Louis, MO, USA Workshop on Machine Consciousness within the KIMAS’09 Conference There is an increasing interest in investigating the possibility of equipping machines with consciousness mechanisms. The rationale behind it may be…
Mind that Abides. Panpsychism in the new millennium Edited by David Skrbina. University of Michigan at Dearborn Advances in Consciousness Research, 75 Benjamins Publishing Company. 2009. xiv, 401 pp. John. Panpsychism is the view that all things, living and nonliving,…
The Development and Analysis of Conscious Machines “The Development and Analysis of Conscious Machines” is the title of the PhD thesis written and developed by David Gamez at the Department of Computing and Electronic Systems, University of Essex. This thesis…
ASSC XIII The thirteenth annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) will be held from 5 till 8 June 2009 at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and…
Axel Cleeremans Research Directors with the NFSR. Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium. His research interests include Consciousness, Computational Models of Cognition, Implicit Learning, and Cognitive Science. Axel Cleeremans is research director, N.F.S.R. Consciousness, Cognition & Computation Group (CO3)…