Helsinki, Finland, August 21 - 22. 2008
Nokia Research Center, Itämerenkatu 11 - 13, Helsinki

Program (changes possible)

Day 1. Thursday, August 21, 2008

8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:15 Welcoming words by Nokia Management
9:15 - 10:00 Introductory speech by Prof. Igor Aleksander
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break

Session 1. Consciousness Models
session chairman Riccardo Manzotti

10:30 - 11:00 Antonio Chella: Robotanic: an externalist outlook of a robot architecture
11:00 - 11:30 Will Browne: Emotional cognitive steps towards consciousness
11:30 - 12:00 Ricardo Sanz: Systems, models and self-awareness: A SysML model of consciousness
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

Session 2. Systems and Architectures
session chairman Ricardo Sanz

13:00 - 13:30 Ben Goertzel: Achieving advanced machine consciousness through integrative, virtually embodied artificial general intelligence
13:30 - 14:00 Yasuo Kinouchi: A logical model of consciousness on a neural network system with a simple abstract brain-like structure
14:00 - 14:30 Harri Valpola: The engine of thought - a bio-inspired mechanism for distributed selection of useful information
14:30 - 15:00 Uma Ramamurthy: Might a LIDA Controlled Robot be Phenomenally Conscious?
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 17:00 Round Table Discussion; moderator Prof. Igor Aleksander
19:00 - 21:00 Buffet Party

Day 2. Friday, August 22, 2008

9:00 - 9:05 Introduction to day 2

Session 3. Imagination and Phenomenology
session chairman Germund Hesslow

9:05 - 9:35 Hugo Gravato Marques: Imagination in an anthropomimetic robot
9:35 - 10:05 David Gamez: A systematic approach to synthetic phenomenology
10:05 - 10:30 Coffee break

Session 4. Phenomenology and Qualia
session chairman Antonio Chella

10:30 - 11:00 Riccardo Manzotti: Physical foundations of phenomenal content in a conscious machine
11:00 - 11:30 Germund Hesslow: Qualia and how to make a machine have them
11:30 - 12:00 Pentti Haikonen: The role of qualia in machine consciousness; nothing or everything?
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

Session 5. Special Issues
session chairman Pentti Haikonen

13:00 - 13:30 Markku Åberg: Neuron microchips
13:30 - 14:00 Raúl Arrabales Moreno: ConsScale: A plausible test for machine consciousness?
14:00 - 14:30 Emmanuel Lesser, Charles Jorgensen: A Cognitive Approach to Silent Speech Recognition
14:30 - 15:00 Ron Chrisley: An expectation-based robotic model of affective experience
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 17:00 Concluding Discussion; moderator TBA