Following the success and enthusiastic reception of last year’s workshop, we propose a follow-up session building on the insights into temporality in living beings. The current edition’s focus will be on the question previous discussion led us up to, but could not address in full: possible approaches to engineering systems with temporal properties akin to those observed directly in human experience, and indirectly in other biological systems.  

After a brief recap of the findings of the previous workshop we will move onto a series of talks addressing this question from the point of view of  robotics, philosophy and cognitive science. In the process, we will address tributary questions, including whether life is necessary for temporality, temporality necessary for mindedness, and which current research directions offer the most promising path toward artificial temporality.  

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CONFERENCE HALL - KYOTO SANGYO-KAIKAN HALL

KYOTO KEIZAI CENTER

Kyoto Sangyo Kaikan Hall

78, Hakoya Hokocho, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto, 600-8009

Kyoto, Japan.

Adam Rostowski (a.rostowski@sussex.ac.uk), Department of Informatics, University of Sussex

Fernando Rodriguez Vergara (f.rodriguez-vergara@sussex.ac.uk), AI Research Group, University of Sussex