Oct
Natural and Artificial Cognition III
Fika-to-fika Workshop about research on how aspects of human, animal, or artificial cognition, through communication and other forms of interaction, influence behaviour in the individual, dyadic, or collective context.
When: 22 October 09.30 – 15.30 (CET)
Where: E:A, E-huset, Klas Anshelms väg 10* (Ole Römers väg 3), Lund, Sweden and online
Location in Google maps.
Registration
To participate is free of charge. Registration for on-site participation is now closed.
Sign up for online participation at participation at ai.lu.se/2024-10-22/registration/.
Programme
9.30 Registration, posters, fika & mingle
9.55 Online meeting opens
10.00 Research presentations
Moderator: Marianne Gullberg, General Linguistics, Director, Lund University Humanities Lab.
Moderator zoom: Melvyn B. Davies, Mathematics (Faculty of Sciences)
Introduction
Kalle Åström, Mathematics, Coordinator Profile Area: Natural and Artificial Cognition
Invited talk: The Value of Consciousness by Axel Cleeremans, Center for Research in Cognition & Neurosciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
For want of a body. Why LLMs have problems with causal reasoning
Peter Gärdenfors, Cognitive Science
NextG2Com and NAC - Synergies and opportunities for collaboration
Maria Kihl, Electrical and Information Technology, Director of Vinnova Competence Centre NextG2Com
12.00 Lunch and poster session
12.55 Online meeting opens
13.00 Research presentations
Moderator: Kalle Åström, Mathematics, Coordinator Profile Area: Natural and Artificial Cognition
Moderator zoom: Melvyn B. Davies, Mathematics (Faculty of Sciences)
Invited talk: Bad equilibrium: What mathematical models can tell us about everyday human behaviour by Professor Alexander J. Stewart, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews
Decoding the past: Insights into episodic memory through eye tracking and neural pattern analysis
Mikael Johansson, Psychology, Lund University
Dynamic integration of multisensory directional information:
how multiple sources of directional information can degrade steering
Marie Dacke, Biology, Lund Vision Group, Lund university
Data+Annotations, Synthetic Data, Transfer Learning and Foundation Models
Mikael Nilsson, Mathematics, Lund University.
15.00 Poster session, fika and mingle
15.30 end of workshop
Poster contributions
Gaze communication for large program comprehension; Designing a multi-modal IDE with developers: an exploratory study on next-generation programming tool assistance,
Peng Kuang, Computer Science
Quantitative ethograms of walking bumblebees, for detailed analysis of pesticide effects,
Ana Zadel, Biology, Vision group
Identifying neuromodulatory input neurons to the fan-shaped body of the insect Central Complex,
Matilda Langreiter, Biology, Vision group
Natural Language Response Formats for Assessing Depression,
Zhuojun Gu, Psychology
Calibration algorithms for real-time brain-computer interfaces
Frida Heskebeck, Automatic Control
The Impact of Time Delays on Gaze Behavior in Human-Robot interaction
Samantha Stedtler, Cognition
GPT in examination
Pex Tufvesson, Autmatic Control
Influence of interactional kinematics on interpersonal synchrony in Human-Robot interactions
Trond Arild Tjostheim, Cognitive Science
Mixed-Initiative Interaction for Collaborative Robots
Ayesha Jena, Robotics and Semantic Systems
A Deep Learning Pipeline for Genome-Wide Imaging Screen Uncovering Cell Death Regulators
Salma Kazemi Rashed, Cell Death, Lysosomes and Artificial Intelligence
Don’t jam my echolocation! – Dolphin echolocation behaviour during a role specialised foraging task
Josefin Starkhammar, Biomedical Engineering
Registration
To participate is free of charge. Sign up for on-site or online participation at ai.lu.se/2024-10-22/registration/.
Axel Cleereman abstract
Why would we do anything at all if the doing was not doing something to us? In other words: What is consciousness good for? Does phenomenal experience have a function? Surprisingly, perhaps, many have answered “no”. In philosophy, epiphenomenalist and illusionist positions have gained strength, and so have panpsychist perspectives, which, while neither denying phenomenology nor its functions, paradoxically deflate it by ascribing it to all matter. The concept of free will has likewise been deconstructed to the point that it has become commonplace to think it simply does not exist. In psychology, while Freud’s influence has now waned, most relevant research nevertheless seems dedicated to documenting what we can do without awareness rather than because of it. This is reinforced by the stupefying advances of artificial intelligence research, which are suggestive that feeling things is simply unnecessary to carry out complex information processing. Finally, even consciousness research itself has fallen prey to deflationist views. The “search for the neural correlates of consciousness” — the main empirical program in consciousness research for over three decades — has been exclusively focused on identifying the neural basis of the differences between conscious and unconscious processing, so eluding the essential fact that experiences cannot exist independently of the subject whose experiences they are. Contra such views, we propose that subject-level experience—‘What it feels like’— is endowed with intrinsic value, and that it is precisely the value agents associate with their experiences that explains why they do certain things and avoid others. And because experiences have value and guide behaviour, consciousness has a function. Congruently, Block (2023) writes, about Global Workspace Theory, that “[..] it may be conscious phenomenology that promotes global broadcasting, something like the reverse of what the global workspace theory of consciousness supposes.” Perhaps then, is it the case that the functions associated with consciousness are a consequence, rather than the cause, of phenomenal experience. Under this hypothesis of ‘phenomenal primacy’, we argue that it is only in virtue of the fact that conscious agents ‘experience’ things and ‘care’ about those experiences that they are ‘motivated’ to act in certain ways and that they ‘prefer’ some states of affairs vs. others. Thus, phenomenal experience might act as a mental currency of sorts that not only endows conscious mental states with intrinsic value but also makes it possible for conscious agents to compare vastly different experiences in a common subject-centred space—a feature that readily explains the fact that consciousness is ‘unified’.
Organisation and contact
- Hanna Bäck, Political Science
- Stanley Heinze, Nano Lund, Lund Vision Group
- Magnus Oskarsson, Mathematics
- Marcus Stensmyr, Animal Physiology
- Jonas Wisbrant, AI Lund, NAC
*Since the summer 2024 buildings at LTH, Lund University have got new street addresses.
About the event
Location:
E:A, E-huset, Klas Anshelms väg 10* (Ole Römers väg 3), Lund, Sweden and online
Contact:
Jonas [dot] Wisbrant [at] control [dot] lth [dot] se