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Mind Matters: Intelligence and Agency in the Physical World
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Time & Causality
Sean Carroll, Causality and the Arrow of Time
Jayne Thompson, Causal Asymmetry in a Quantum World
Jeff Tollaksen, A new approach to time
Larissa Albantakis, When is an action caused from within? Quantifying the causal chain leading to actions in simulated agents
Panel: Is Time Real? Carlo Rovelli, James Weatherall, Bernard Carr, Jayne Thompson with Andreas Albrecht
Information & Computation
Paul Davies, The Demon in the Machine
Fred Adams, Limits on Computation
David Wolpert, Stochastic thermodynamics of computation
Dominik Safranek, Measuring Observers’ Knowledge
Panel: For What Will Quantum Computers Ever Be Useful? Scott Aaronson, Seth Lloyd, Mile Gu, Michele Reilly with Catalina Curceanu
Physics for Agency
Carlo Rovelli, What does meaning mean in a natural world?
Alyssa Ney, Two Physicalisms
Susanne Still, Thermodynamics of Agency
Panel: Intelligence+Agency=Free Will? Sara Walker, David Haussler, David Wallaczek, Sean Carroll with Jenann Ismael
Information, Action and Biology
Sara Walker, Bio from Bit
Chris Watkins, How complex can evolved organisms become? The efficiency of diffuse genetic code
George Ellis, The Dynamical Emergence of Biology From Physics: Branching Causation via Biomolecules
Quantum Agents and Minds
Seth Lloyd, What quantum computation can and can’t help with bringing on general artificial intelligence
Mile Gu, Complexity Science in the Presence of Quantum Agents
Adam Brown, Agency and Quantum Mechanics
Lidia del Rio, Modelling physical agents with a quantum computer
Panel: Can Quantum Theory Consistently Describe Itself? Scott Aaronson, Lidia del Rio Raphael Bousso, Matt Leifer with David Wallace
Natural and Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark, Steps toward building an AI physicist
Surya Ganguli, A mathematical theory of semantic development in deep neural networks
David Haussler, Self organizing neural complexity
Karl Friston, I am therefore I think
Panel: Will we hit an AI singularity? Surya Ganguli, Andrew Briggs, Olaf Witkowski, Michael Vassar with Susan Schneider
Physics and the Mind
Susan Schneider, Design Ceilings on Enhancing the Human Mind
Scott Aaronson, The Search for Physical Correlates of Consciousness: Lessons from the Failure of Integrated Information Theory
Ian Durham, A formal model of consciousness and emergent free will
Panel: Can Physics Completely Model the Mind? Adrian Kent, George Ellis, Paavo Pylkkänen, Adam Brown with David Chalmers
Consciousness and Reality
Jenann Ismael, The emergence of intelligence: from Nature through Culture
Joscha Bach, Reconciling consciousness with physicalism
Marcus Mueller, Mind before matter: why we should reconsider idealist worldviews
David Chalmers, Zeno goes to Copenhagen
Panel: Does the Universe Require Conscious Observers? Larissa Albantakis, Max Tegmark, Yasunori Nomura, Eleanor Knox with Zeeya Merali
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