Models of Consciousness Conferences Courses

The Creativity Code - AI - Friend or Foe?

Explore the intersection of AI, creativity, and consciousness with Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy. Delve into the potential of machines to think, create, and impact our future in this thought-provoking talk.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

To What Extent Are Machines Conscious?

Exploring machine consciousness: challenges, theories, and implications. Analyzes information, computation, and phenomenal experience in AI, discussing strong vs. weak machine consciousness and their achievability.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Geometry of World Model Influences Behaviors - Exact Results for Curiosity-Based Exploration

Explores how the geometry of internal world models affects behavior, focusing on the Projective Consciousness Model and its implications for understanding consciousness and designing social robots.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

On the Degrees of Freedom Worth Having - Psychedelics and Free Will

Explore the intersection of psychedelics, free will, and consciousness. Discover how serotonergic pathways may influence volitional capacities and adaptive flexibility in human cognition and behavior.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Cortex-Like Systems via Range-Dependent Networks of K-Dimensional Clocks

Explore a novel model of human cortex using range-dependent networks of phase-resetting clocks, offering insights into consciousness and cognitive processing with simplified simulations.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Model Unity and the Unity of Consciousness

Explores model unity in consciousness research, examining mathematical formulations and experimental results to understand phenomenal unity and its implications for unified experiences.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Fusing Agents and Qualia - A Formal Solution to the Combination Problem

Explores a formal theory of consciousness, proposing that agent interactions create complex structures and fuse subjects and qualia, with spacetime as an interface for these interactions.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Conscious Dynamic Polytopes and Physical Interfaces

Exploring conscious agent theory, polytope dynamics, and their connection to particle physics, offering insights into the mind-body problem and emergence of spacetime.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Towards an NP-Hard Model of Consciousness

Exploring computational complexity of consciousness, analyzing arguments for non-computability, and proposing conditions for implementable conscious systems in artificial intelligence.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Gnomonic Projection from Objective Flat 3-Space to Subjective Hemi-3-Sphere

Explores a novel model of visual perception using gnomonic projection to map objective 3D space onto a curved subjective space, explaining phenomena like foreshortening and straight line perception.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Does Consciousness Emerge?

Explore the concept of emergence in consciousness theories, examining its meanings, applications, and implications for understanding the nature of consciousness.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Consciousness Meets AI for a New Paradigm

Exploring connections between consciousness and AI, combining theories like Global Workspace Theory with deep learning to develop a new paradigm for general-purpose intelligence and brain-to-brain communication.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

On the Link Between Conscious Function and General Intelligence in Humans and Machines

Exploring the connection between consciousness and intelligence in humans and AI, examining theories and proposing a unified model for developing more advanced artificial agents.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Insights from the Conscious Turing Machine - A Machine Model for Consciousness

Explore a substrate-independent model of consciousness inspired by Turing's computation model and Baars' Global Workspace theory, offering insights into conscious experiences across animals and machines.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Mathematical Phenomenology, from Subjectivity to Objectivity Through Mathematical Invariants

Explore mathematical phenomenology's role in consciousness studies, examining how objectivity emerges from subjectivity using category theory and mathematical invariants.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk