Workshop Topics

This workshop pulls together recent work on present-time consciousness from a cognitive, neurobiological, and phenomenological perspective. We intend to address developments of post-Husserlian models of the experience of the present as constituted by the perpetual unfolding of protentive and retentive dynamics, within the context of empirical evidence regarding their possible biological bases.

Whereas phenomenological accounts of temporality were traditionally considered anathema to computational, discretised approaches, current alternatives (such as computational phenomenology) demand a re-examination of this assumption. From here, we address the question of whether and how a successful model of such a kind might contribute to the creation of artificial systems (in silicon or in machine) possessing temporality of the sort described by Husserl.