Models of Consciousness Conferences Courses

Generalised Integrated Information Theories

Exploring generalizations of Integrated Information Theory to address technical issues and extend applicability beyond classical systems, using category theory and process theories.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Reasoning About Conscious Experience With Axiomatic and Graphical Mathematics

Explore mathematical approaches to modeling consciousness using category theory and graphical calculus, examining key aspects like subjective experience and phenomenal unity.

• YouTube
• 13 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Talking Space - Inference from Spatial Linguistic Meanings

Explore how physical space and language interact to create meaning, using formal mechanisms to model spatial-linguistic relationships and draw inferences from our embodied experiences.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

A Double-Categorical Framework for Constructive Cognitive Architectures

Explore a mathematical framework for cognitive architectures using category theory, examining rewriting, virtual equipments, and profunctor optics to formalize complex cognitive mechanisms.

• YouTube
• 12 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Making Up Our Minds

Explore how minds and thoughts are constructed through cognitive processes, examining the nature of consciousness, memory, and perception using interdisciplinary models and mathematical frameworks.

• YouTube
• 13 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Synergistic Workspace for Consciousness Revealed by Integrated Information Decomp

Exploring brain's information processing architecture and its role in consciousness through integrated information decomposition, revealing a synergistic global workspace crucial for conscious experience.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Strange Loops Inside Our Brains

Explore the intriguing connection between Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem and consciousness, critically examining Hofstadter's analogies and their implications for understanding the mind-body problem.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Larissa Albantakis – Why a Little Bit of Causal Structure Is Necessary... Even for Functionalists

Explores why causal structure is essential for theories of consciousness, using thought experiments to argue that functionalist accounts lacking causal analysis are inadequate for identifying conscious individuals.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Collapse and the Closure of the Physical

Explore quantum collapse theories and their implications for consciousness, examining physical closure and epistemic asymmetry in scientific theories of mind.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

No Substitute for Functionalism

Explores types of variations in consciousness models, proving broad functionalist theories immune to substitution arguments. Discusses implications for consciousness science and functionalism.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

A Vector Model of How Consciousness as Integrated Information Makes a Causal Difference

Explore a vector model of consciousness based on Integrated Information Theory, examining how phenomenal experiences can exert causal influence on physical substrates.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

An Integrated Information Decomposition Account of Emergent Mental Phenomena

Explore the intersection of Integrated Information Theory and Partial Information Decomposition to understand consciousness and causal emergence, offering new perspectives on mental phenomena and selfhood.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

How Morphological Computation Shapes Integrated Information in Embodied Agents

Exploring the relationship between morphological computation and integrated information in embodied agents, highlighting their antagonistic nature and impact on brain-body-environment interactions.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Towards a Category-Theoretic Framework for Phenomenal Holism

Exploring phenomenal holism through category theory, examining color experiences across the visual field and addressing theoretical concerns about inverted qualia and experience-substrate relationships.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Automata-Theoretic Approach to Modelling Consciousness Within Mental Monism

Automata-theoretic approach to modeling consciousness in mental monism, exploring constraints and implications for substrate-free models of the mind's structure and dynamics.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video