The first project workshop, entitled Expecting Ourselves: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind, was held on November 10, 2017 in the Informatics Forum at the University of Edinburgh.
Videos of the talks (in chronological order) are below the programme.
PROGRAMME
9.00 Registration Opens, Coffee and Pastries in the Forum
9.30 - 10.15 Opening Presentation by the XSPECT Team
10.15 – 11.00 Wanja Wiese - Making it personal: What subpersonal predictive processing stories can tell us about consciousness
11.00 Coffee
11.30 – 12.15 Marta Garnelo - Generative models in Artificial Intelligence
12.15 – 1.00 Karl Friston - Active inference and deep temporal models
Lunch 1.00-2.00 Free Buffet in Forum
2.00 – 2.45 Jonny Smallwood - Searching for the elements of thought: understanding the role of the default mode network in human cognition
2.45 – 3.30 Sarah Garfinkel - Interoceptive signals from the heart can guide cognitive and perceptual experience
3.30 Coffee
4.00 - 4.45 Anil Seth - Being a beast machine
4.45 Wrap-up and Rap-up - Remarks by Dan Dennett, Open Discussion, Rap by Baba Brinkman
5.30 Poster session and Drinks in the Forum
7.30 Dinner for Speakers, Chairs, and Organizers.
Videos of the talks (in chronological order) are below the programme.
PROGRAMME
9.00 Registration Opens, Coffee and Pastries in the Forum
9.30 - 10.15 Opening Presentation by the XSPECT Team
10.15 – 11.00 Wanja Wiese - Making it personal: What subpersonal predictive processing stories can tell us about consciousness
11.00 Coffee
11.30 – 12.15 Marta Garnelo - Generative models in Artificial Intelligence
12.15 – 1.00 Karl Friston - Active inference and deep temporal models
Lunch 1.00-2.00 Free Buffet in Forum
2.00 – 2.45 Jonny Smallwood - Searching for the elements of thought: understanding the role of the default mode network in human cognition
2.45 – 3.30 Sarah Garfinkel - Interoceptive signals from the heart can guide cognitive and perceptual experience
3.30 Coffee
4.00 - 4.45 Anil Seth - Being a beast machine
4.45 Wrap-up and Rap-up - Remarks by Dan Dennett, Open Discussion, Rap by Baba Brinkman
5.30 Poster session and Drinks in the Forum
7.30 Dinner for Speakers, Chairs, and Organizers.
