Day 1: Data and General Considerations

09:00

Welcome and introduction

09:10

Opening speech:

Ron Chrisley

Data to be explained by a Theory of Consciousness  PPT File

10:10

Coffee Break

10:30

 Morning session

Germund Hesslow

The inner world as a consequence of behavioural and perceptual simulation PPT File

John Taylor

The Data of Consciousness PPT File

12:30

Lunch

13:30

Afternoon Session

Pentti Haikonen

Conscious Machines and the Mind-body Problem PPT File

Jim Doran

Behaviours, Day-Dreams, Plans, and Consciousness PPT File

Geraint Rees

Imaging the NCC  PPT File

15:30

Coffee Break

16:00

Miguel Angel Salichs

A Systemic Study of Consciousness PPT File

17:00

Discussion:

The relevant data and the targets of potential explanations of consciousness

19:00

Dinner

Day 2: Potential Unified Theories

09:00

Opening speech:

Aaron Sloman

Meanings, Theories and Models of Consciousness PPT File

10:05

Coffee Break

10:30

 Morning session

John Taylor

The CODAM Model for Consciousness PPT File

Peter Redgrave

Biological Solutions to the Selection Problem PPT File

Antti Revonsuo

Multilevel Mechanistic Models and the Explanation of Consciousness PPT File

12:30

Lunch

13:30

Afternoon Session

Tom Ziemke

What's life got to do with it? Why an artificial self might have to be autopoietic  PPT File

François Anceau

A Model for Consciousness Based on the Sequential Behavior of Voluntary Actions PPT File

Axel Cleermans

The Search for the Computational Correlates of Consciousness PPT File

15:30

Coffee Break

16:00

Owen Holland

Plans and the structure of consciousness PPT File

Consciousness within Unified Theories of Mind PPT File

17:30

Discussion:

The (multiple) nature of consciousness and the feasibility of a ultimate theory

19:00

Dinner

Day 3: Research and Engineering

09:00

Opening speech:

Ricardo Sanz

Engineering Conscious Machines  PPT File

10:05

Coffee Break

10:30

 Morning session

Tom Ziemke

Towards neuro-robotic models of conscious thought as simulation of sensorimotor processes  PPT File

Aaron Sloman

The H-CogAff architecture PPT File

12:30

Lunch

13:30

Afternoon Session:

Riccardo Manzotti

A Process-based Architecture for Artificial Consciousness: from Ontogenesis to Phenomenal Experience PPT File

Pentti Haikonen

An Implementable Architecture for Conscious Machines PPT File

Murray Shanahan

Machine Consciousness and Cognitive Robotics: Two Research Agendas or One? PPT File

15:30

Coffee Break

16:00

General Cognitive Principles and the Structure of Behavior PPT File

17:00

Closing Session:

Roadmapping for consciousness research and engineering

19:00

Dinner