Emmy Network Symposium 2025: Intelligence - Natural and Artificial - and its relation to Infinity and Reality
We are delighted to invite you to join us online for the livestream of the Emmy Network Symposium 2025 on the topic of Intelligence - Natural and artificial, relations to Infinity and Reality.
We will be releasing the livestream link on our website on the day, but if you would like a reminder, please feel free to register for the event.
Interested companions are invited to share in a 2-day gig in Kankas castle, Finland, on the topic - What is intelligence (what is thinking?). The Alan Turing Classic (https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/turing.pdf) is a “prime text” to be pondered. We submit that whatever your “technical” discipline, the topic must touch upon your interests. Those interested may join us remotely.
The plan is to discuss what is intelligence - human and non-human (animal and artificial) - but also the difference between this question - posed by Turing in his famed original 1950 piece - and the older but seemingly more treacherous question he explicitly avoided - what is thinking?
We are driven by a book completed by Emmy Network host Jussi Westergren, with sub-title “Infinity, Intelligence, Reality”. We aim to have a sequel get together next year in the spring upon its official publication. The current get together, May 15-17, is a warm-up, with a host of reflections on the three notions mentioned. We take Turing’s old classic to be its own Prelude to any thinking about intelligence.
We have assembled a packed agenda with the world's leading lights in the field to address this topic. The livestream link will be available on our website to join at any time during the event (https://emmy.network/). Below is the agenda for the two days (times in GMT+3):
Friday 16 May
Session 1 (recording): https://www.youtube.com/live/fM02I-aBtQk
10.00-11.00 Infinite cosmic reality and why it’s everywhere intelligent – Joseph Almog (Oxford/UCLA)
11.00-12.00 Infinity, random walks in curved space, and AI- Anders Karlsson (zoom, Geneva)
12.00-14.30 BREAK
Session 2 (recording): https://youtu.be/abFBU9cRNY8
14.30-15.30 Logic for natural Language - Hans Kamp (Stuttgart)
15.30-16.30 The Universe of Sets: Fantasy or Reality? - Hugh Woodin (Harvard)
16.30-17.30 Decision making processes at the fundamental unit of living systems: the cell - Steve Altschuler, Lani Wu
17.30-18.30 BREAK
Session 3 (recording): https://youtube.com/live/ubocVkDQwmI
18.30-20.00 ROUNDTABLE (Jessica Pepp moderator and start up speaker)
Discussion of Turing test and what is thinking?
Roger Penrose opening words on his work (from Oxford)
Saturday 17 May
Session 4 (recording): https://youtu.be/XvVYGMot__s
10.00-11.00 Three crisscrossing paths to algebraic understanding: Linear, polynomial and generated-by-groups - Wushi Goldring (Stockholm)
11.00-12.00 Intelligence in and by Infinite Reality – Jussi Westergren
12.00-13.00 Intelligence and understanding - Edward Jung
13.00-15.00 BREAK
Session 5 (LIVE): https://youtube.com/live/5GPhRVTaPrU
15.00-16.00 Arithmetic, Geometry, Computation, and Physics - Minhyong Kim (Edinburgh)
16.00-17.00 New challenges on our conception of the Higher Infinite - Joan Bagaria (Barcelona)
17.00-18.00 Fragments of Hilbert's Program - Joël Ouaknine and Vesa Halava(Oxford/Turku)
18.00 Close