CC Tokyo: How People Form Beliefs (Oct 14th, 18:00- JST)
Title: How People Form Beliefs Date: 2022/10/14 18:00- （JST） Speaker: Tali Sharot (Professor University College London) Abstract: In this talk I will present our recent behavioural and neuroscience research on how the brain motivates itself to form particular beliefs and why it does so. I will propose that the utility of a belief is derived […]
The Thirty Sixth WBA Workshop, Oct 5, 18:00~ Online
Hiro Hamada has been selected to moderate the “WBA Workshop” organized by the NPO Whole Brain Architecture Initiative! He will also participate in a panel discussion as a guest panelist. This event has been held continuously since 2013 and it is a place to promote exchanges among researchers interested in the realization of human-like flexible […]
CC Tokyo: Theories of consciousness: beyond the first/higher-order distinction(Sep 9th, 18:00- JST)
Title: Theories of consciousness: beyond the first/higher-order distinction Date: 2022/9/9 18:00- (JST) Speaker： Jonathan Birch(Associate Professor London School of Economics Abstract： Theories of consciousness are commonly grouped into “first-order” and “higher-order” families. As conventional wisdom has it, many more animals are likely to be conscious if a first-order theory is correct. But two recent developments […]