Ernst Mach Workshop XIII 2025: Conscious AI? Functionalism and its Alternatives

10:00 – 11:30
Keynote lecture
Anil Seth (Sussex)
Prospects and Pitfalls for Real Artificial Consciousness

Lunch break

13:00 – 14:30
Keynote lecture
Kathinka Evers (Uppsala)
Artificial Consciousness: Science Fiction, Utopia, or Pandora’s Box?

14:45 – 15:30
Chris Percy (Derby)
Can Computational Functionalism Overcome a Novel Variant of the Phenomenal Binding Problem?

Coffee break

15:45 – 16:30
Benjamin Sleeper and Carlos Toxtli (Clemson)
Resonant Attractor Networks: A Dynamical Blueprint for Consciousness

16:30 – 17:15
Lukas Kob (Magdeburg)
Substrate-Hybrid Systems in the Context of AI Consciousness

10:00 – 10:45
Graham Findlay (Wisconsin)
Dissociating Artificial Intelligence from Artificial Consciousness

10:45 – 11:30
Moritz Kriegleder (Vienna)
Perspectivism and the Natural-Artificial Divide in Consciousness Studies

Lunch break

13:00 – 13:45
Kristina Šekrst (Zagreb)
Do Large Language Models Hallucinate Electric Fatamorganas?

13:45 – 14:30
Mariela Destéfano (Buenos Aires)
Artificial Consciousness and Inner Speech

Národní 3, Prague 1 – Old Town, Czechia.

This is an in-person only event. Please e-mail us at emw@flu.cas.cz to register if you’re interested in attending the workshop.

Juraj Hvorecky, Tomas Marvan, Jakub Mihalik, and Tomas Hribek.