Ernst Mach Workshop XIII 2025: Conscious AI? Functionalism and its Alternatives

Program

Monday, June 2

10:00 – 11:30
Keynote lecture
Anil Seth (Sussex)
Prospects and Pitfalls for Real Artificial Consciousness

Lunch break 

13:00 – 14:30
Keynote lecture
Kathinka Evers (Uppsala)
Artificial Consciousness: Science Fiction, Utopia, or Pandora’s Box?

14:45 – 15:30
Chris Percy (Derby)
Can Computational Functionalism Overcome a Novel Variant of the Phenomenal Binding Problem?

Coffee break

15:45 – 16:30
Benjamin Sleeper and Carlos Toxtli (Clemson)
Resonant Attractor Networks: A Dynamical Blueprint for Consciousness

16:30 – 17:15
Lukas Kob (Magdeburg)
Substrate-Hybrid Systems in the Context of AI Consciousness

Tuesday, June 3

10:00 – 10:45
Graham Findlay (Wisconsin)
Dissociating Artificial Intelligence from Artificial Consciousness

10:45 – 11:30
Moritz Kriegleder (Vienna)
Perspectivism and the Natural-Artificial Divide in Consciousness Studies

Lunch break

13:00 – 13:45
Kristina Šekrst (Zagreb)
Do Large Language Models Hallucinate Electric Fatamorganas?

13:45 – 14:30
Mariela Destéfano (Buenos Aires)
Artificial Consciousness and Inner Speech

Location

Národní 3, Prague 1 – Old Town, Czechia.

This is an in-person only event. Please e-mail us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to register if you’re interested in attending the workshop.

Local organizing team

Juraj Hvorecky, Tomas Marvan, Jakub Mihalik, and Tomas Hribek.