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SUMMARY:Mind & World for Humans & Machines - Multiple Speakers
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DESCRIPTION:_“Mind & World for Humans & Machines”_ \n\n*Saturday 4th M
 ay 2019*\n\n*Crausaz Wordsworth Building\, Robinson College\, Cambridge*\n
 \nRegistration Link:\n\n*https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mind-world-for-hum
 ans-machines-tickets-59163761403*\n\nCambridge Muslim College is pleased t
 o announce the 2019 Religion & Science conference supported by the John Te
 mpleton Foundation on “Mind & World for Humans & Machines” to be held 
 on Saturday 4th May 2019.\n\nThe conference follows on from two earlier co
 nferences on the themes of intelligence and consciousness. The forthcoming
  conference will continue to focus on scientific\, philosophical and theol
 ogical perspectives on intelligence and will further aim to address how sc
 ientific and technological developments are informing our understanding of
  how humans and machines represent and make epistemic contact with the wor
 ld\, as well as the nature of autonomy\, agency and action for humans and 
 machines.\n\nIn the past year\, AI has continued to advance rapidly yieldi
 ng notable developments in key areas such as natural language processing a
 nd machine vision\, which has renewed ambitions of attempting to develop a
 rtificial general intelligence. AI systems are now capable of significantl
 y surpassing human capabilities in increasingly complex domains and are ha
 ving a substantial impact on the nature of research in the physical scienc
 es and humanities. In addition\, there has been progress in designing syst
 ems that outperform highly ranked players in challenging games that requir
 e long-term planning\, strategic decision making\, and reasoning based on 
 the imperfect knowledge of the microworlds of the games.\n\nHowever\, arti
 ficial agents are not intended to remain confined to the virtual microworl
 ds in which they are gestated and trained\, and their activities are gradu
 ally being transposed into the physical world. In concert with this is the
  transposition of human activity and presence into the digital world of ar
 tificial agents and machine forms of intelligence. This new informational 
 environment is viewed as subsuming both cyber and physical space into a un
 ified artificially constructed virtual world that is better suited to the 
 capacities of machines than humans. The intersection of humans and machine
 s in the shared space of the “information sphere” entails what Luciano
  Floridi has described as a “re-ontologization of our environment and of
  ourselves.”\n\nThe conference will therefore consider issues arising fr
 om the reconstruction of mind and world and how these developments are cha
 llenging our understanding of the nature of mind and world from scientific
 \, philosophical and theological perspectives.\n\nSchedule\n\n||08:30am	~~
 ~	Registration & Breakfast||\n||09:30am	*Shaykh Abdul Hakim Murad*	- Welco
 me & Introduction||\n||10:00am	*Prof Constantine Sandis*	- AI Intelligibil
 ity & Rights to Explanation||\n||11:00am	~~~	Break||\n||11:25am	*Aysenur 
 Ünügür Tabur*	- Artificial Intelligence\, Self-Consciousness and Emerge
 ntism||\n||12:00pm	*Ryan Haecker*	- Avicenna and Artificial Intelligence: 
 From Medieval Logic to Modern Cybernetics||\n||12:30pm	~~~	Lunch||\n||02:0
 0pm	*Amal Awad*	- Unquinable Qualia: Defending Theism by Critiquing a Cent
 ral Argument for Materialism||\n||02:35pm	*Fr. Dr. Wojciech Grygiel*	 - TB
 C||\n||03:10pm	*Dr. Aku Visala*	- Where Does the Buck Stop? On the Respons
 ibility of Artificial Beings and Their Creators||\n||03:45pm	~~~	Break||\n
 ||04:15pm	*Prof. Joanna Bryson*	- TBC||\n||05:30pm	*Dr. Syed Mustafa Ali*	
 - The Decolonial Question Concerning Artificial Intelligence||\n||06:15pm	
 ~~~	Closing Remarks||\n
LOCATION:Crausaz Wordsworth Building\, Robinson College\, Cambridge
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