2024 TSC PLENARY 5 - THE GLOBAL BRAIN

SUSAN SCHNEIDER, KEYNOTE
Susan Schneider is the Director of the Center for the Future Mind at Florida Atlantic University, the former NASA/Blumberg Chair in Astrobiology at NASA and the former Distinguished Scholar Chair at the Library of Congress. She works with Congress on AI policy and co-directs the MPCR AI Lab at FAU. She writes about the fundamental nature of the self and mind, especially from the vantage point of issues in philosophy, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and astrobiology. Her work has been featured on shows on PBS, The History Channel, Fox, CNN and the BBC and featured in print venues such as The New York Times, the MIT Technology Review, Science, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Nautilus, Scientific American, the Washington Post and more. Schneider is the author of Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, a 120-page philosophical primer on what AI can and cannot achieve, and an academic book on the computational nature of the mind, The Language of Thought: a New Philosophical Direction (2011, MIT). She is currently working on a book on the future of intelligent systems for WW Norton and another on “chatbot epistemology” (with Mark Bailey and Michael Lynch). (Keynote/Plen 5)
2024 The Science of Consciousness 30th Annual
April 22-27, 2024
"The Science of Consciousness"
Tucson & International biennial conferences
Center for Consciousness Studies-UArizona
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Since 1994 - The Science of Consciousness (TSC) is an interdisciplinary conference aimed at rigorous and leading edge approaches to all aspects of the study of conscious experience.
These include neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, molecular biology, medicine, quantum physics, and cosmology, as well as art, technology, and experiential and contemplative approaches.
The conference is the largest and longest-running interdisciplinary gathering probing fundamental questions related to conscious experience.