In the interdisciplinary workshop Interacting Agents in Natural and Artificial Environments we will discuss key questions on self-consciousness and social interactions in natural and artificial environments.

This event is a joint endeavor connecting two interdisciplinary projects and CFCUL Permanent Seminar on Philosophy of Sciences.

The joint workshop will take place on October 13th-14th 2022 in hybrid format, i.e. in person in Lisbon and via Zoom.

The workshop brings together world-leading scholars and junior researchers from philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, robotics and computational neuroscience, to address the following (non-exhaustive) key questions:

i) what is an interacting agent in natural and artificial environments?
ii) what is the relationship between self-consciousness and social interactions in natural and artificial environments?
iii) what are the mechanisms underpinning multisensory integration of self and world-related information in biological versus artificial agents?
iv) what is the relationship between artificial intelligence and artificial embodiment?