Next Generation approaches to Machine Consciousness:

Imagination, Development, Intersubjectivity, and Embodiment

A Symposium of AISB 2005, University of Hertfordshire, UK

Tuesday 12th April

• 08:00-09:00 Registration, Coffee (from 8.30)
• 09:00-09:10 Welcome to the AISB Convention
• 09:10-10:10 Plenary Talk (with AISB Convention): Nigel Gilbert: Computational Sociology
• 10:10-10:45 Coffee & Walking to Session
• 10:45-11:10 Ron Chrisley, Rob Clowes and Steve Torrance: Introduction to Next Generation approaches to Machine Consciousness
• Session 1: IMAGINATION AND MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS
  • 11:10-11:50 Susan Stuart: The Binding Problem: Induction, Integration and Imagination
  • 11:50-12:30 Pentti Haikonen: You Only Live Twice: Imagination in Conscious Machines
  • 12.30-12.45 Short Poster Introductions.
  • 12.45-14.00 Lunch & Posters
  • 14.00-14:40 Murray Shanahan: Consciousness, Emotion, And Imagination: A Brain-Inspired Architecture for Cognitive Robotics.
  • 14.40-15:20 Takashi Ikegami: Chaotic Itinerancy, Active Perception and Mental Imagery
  • 15:20-16:00 Antonio Chella, Marcello Frixione, Salvatore Gaglio: Planning by imagination in Cicerobot, a robot for museum tours
  • 16:00-16:30 Coffee
  • 16:30-17:10 Jon Stening, Henrik Jacobsson, Tom Ziemke: Imagination and Abstraction of Sensorimotor Flow: Towards a Robot Model
  • 17:10-18:00 Session 1 Discussion
• 18:00-20:00 Reception, buffet

Wednesday 13th April

• 08:30-09:00 Coffee
• 09:00-10:00 Plenary Talk (with AISB Convention): Jacqueline Nadel: Looking at the many faces of human socio-cognitive development: Can it help designing 'social' robots?
• 10:00-10:30 Coffee & walking to session rooms.
• Session 2: ETHICAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS
  • 10:30-11:10 Steve Torrance: Thin Phenomenality and Machine Consciousness
  • 11.10-11:50 Tatsuya Nomura, Koichi Takaishi, Tatsunori Hashido: Considerations of Machine Consciousness in the Context of Mental Therapy from Psychological and Sociological Perspecitves
  • 12:00-12:30 David J Calverley: Toward A Method for Determining the Legal Status of a Conscious Machine
• 12.30-13:45 Lunch & Posters
• Session 3: MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS: PHENOMENOLOGY, EMOTION, BODY
  • 13:45-14:25 David Gamez: An Ordinal Probability Scale for Synthetic Phenomenology
  • 14.25-15:05 Tibor Bosse, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Treur: Simulation and Representation of Body, Emotion and Core Consciousness
  • 15:05-15:45 Hiroyuki Iizuma, Takashi Ikegami: Emergence of Body Image and the Dichotomy of Sensory and Motor Activity
  • 15:45-16:15 Coffee
  • 16:15-16:55 Igor Aleksander, Mecedes Lahnstein, Rabinder Lee: Will and Emotions: A Machine Model that Shuns Illusions
• 16:55-17:45 Sessions 2 and 3 Discussion; Symposium conclusion
• 17:45-19:45 Robot demos, finger buffet