Conceptual and Mathematical Foundations of Embodied Intelligence

Invited speakers

Randall D. Beer (Indiana University, USA)
Information and dynamics in brain-body-environment systems
Paul Bourgine (École Polytechnique, France)
Paradigms and models of embodied intelligence
Karl Friston (University College London, United Kingdom)
Embodied inference and free energy
David Krakauer (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Agents and their artefacts: a natural history of ex-bodiment
Thomas Metzinger (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany)
Body-representation and self-consciousness: from embodiment to minimal phenomenal selfhood
Kevin O'Regan (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, France)
A theoretical basis for how artificial or biological agents can construct the basic notion of space
Frank Pasemann (Universität Osnabrück, Germany)
Neurodynamics in the sensorimotor loop
Daniel Polani (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom)
The role of information in formation of cognitive organization
Helge Ritter (Universität Bielefeld, Germany)
Manual intelligence and embodiment
Jürgen Schmidhuber (Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, Switzerland, and Technische Universität München, Germany)
Optimal AI - neural network ReNNaissance - theory of fun
Naftali Tishby (The Hebrew University, Israel)
Information flow in sensation & action and the emergence of [reverse] hierarchies

Antje Vandenberg
MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences
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