Conscious AI Meetup: Physicalism, Panpsychism, Dualism, Idealism

​We would like to welcome you to another event of the Salon of the California Institute of Machine Consciousness!

​How can we make sense of the relationship between mind and matter? We rarely properly discuss and analyze the space of metaphysical theories. We are often unclear about what we mean by physicalism, materialism, panpsychism, functionalism and idealism. As a result, we often find that AI researchers, neuroscientists, psychologists, meditators and theologists talk past each other when they discuss consciousness, experience, observation, nature and physical reality. Lets visit some of these perspectives, take them apart and see if we can get them to work!

​Joscha Bach, Hikari Sorensen and Franz Hildebrandt-Harangozó are looking forward to thinking with each other and the audience!

Attendance is free; we appreciate if you bring non-alcoholic drinks and some snacks.