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WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Tentative schedule (subject to potential revision) is:
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11a
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Session
1: Perspectives
on Machine Consciousness (Session 1 is part of the main TSC 2009 conference) |
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11a
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11:30p
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Ben Goertzel: All Things Are Conscious, But Some Things Are More Conscious Than Others: A Panpsychist Approach to Quantifying Intensity of Consciousness in Natural and Engineered Systems |
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11:30p
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11:50p
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Hugo
de Garis: The Conscious Robot Project: A Neural-Symbolic
Approach to Robotically Embodied Machine Consciousness |
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11:50p
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12:10p
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Yingxu
Wang: On the Origin and Embodiment of Consciousness in Cognitive
Informatics and Computational Intelligence |
| 12:10p |
12:30p |
Panel
Discussion |
| 12:30p |
1:45p |
Lunch |
| 1:45p |
Session 2: Conceptualizing Machine
Consciousness |
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1:45p
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2p
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Ben Goertzel: Workshop Introduction, and Review of Contemporary Architectures for Machine Consciousness |
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2p
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2:15p
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Allan Combs: Machine Consciousness: Essential, Functionalist, and Mixed Approaches |
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2:15p
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2:30p
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Robin Zebrowski: Robot Dreams: Requirements for Synthetic Phenomenology and Intersubjectivity |
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2:45p
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3p |
John Wallace: Can Access Consciousness Qualify as Computer Consciousness? Or, So What If My Computer Can’t Cry! |
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3p
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3:15p
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Pierre
Bonzon: Towards Machine Consciousness: a Developmental Theory of
Thoughts as Communicating Processes |
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3:15p
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3:45p
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Panel Discussion |
| 3:45p |
4:15p |
Afternoon
break |
| 4:15p |
Session 3: Mechanisms of Machine Consciousness | |
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4:15p
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4:30p
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Raoul Arrabales: CERA-CRANIUM, A Test Bed for Machine Consciousness Research |
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4:30p
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4:45p
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Paul Fahn: The Android’s Wardrobe: Emotions, Preferences, and Pre-Rational Decisions in Machine Consciousness |
| 4:45p |
5p |
Anirban Bandyopadhyay: How can we
program a nano-brain so that it can run complex jobs without human
intervention? |
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5p
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5:15p
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Jun Zhang: Intentionality and Goal-Oriented Behavior from Reinforcement Learning |
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5:15p
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5:30p
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John-Thones Amenyo: Engineering Computer Architecture Models for the Evolution of Interiorized Creator-in-a-Box Roles for Conscious Robots, Self-Aware Robots, Automata, Machines and Artifacts |
| 5:30p |
5:45p |
Qishi Li: A mental mechanism explaining the developmental emergence of consciousness: The three rules leading towards conscious being |
| 5:45p |
6:15p |
Panel
Discussion |
| 6:15p |
End
of Workshop! |
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7.30p
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Optional
Workshop Dinner (pay as you go), location TBA |