In the interdisciplinary workshop “Interacting Agents in Natural and Artificial Environments”, we will discuss key questions on self-consciousness and social interactions in natural and artificial environments.

This event is a joint endeavor connecting two interdisciplinary projects (INTERSELF and Magic Shoes, PI Anna Ciaunica) and CFCUL Permanent Seminar on Philosophy of Sciences.

The workshop brings together world-leading scholars and junior researchers from philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, robotics and computational neuroscience, to address the following (non-exhaustive) key questions:

• what is an interacting agent in natural and artificial environments?
• what is the relationship between self-consciousness and social interactions in natural and artificial environments?
• what are the mechanisms underpinning multisensory integration of self and world-related information in biological versus artificial agents?
iv) what is the relationship between artificial intelligence and artificial embodiment?

Speakers:

• Anna Ciaunica (CFCUL/GI2), Antonia Hamilton (University College London), Angelia Caparco (CFCUL/GI2), James Ladyman (University of Bristol), Malika Auvray (Sorbonne-University, Paris), Pedro Neves (Ciências ULisboa), Joe Barnby (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Organised by:

• Anna Ciaunica, Graziana Russo, Angelia Caparco, João L. Cordovil, Silvia Di Marco, Ana Vilar Bravo, Alberto Colombo, Pedro Neves, Madalena Girão, Giulia Chiosini Hambsch

Zoom (pw: 072579).