Thursday Morning Talk SCIoI postdoctoral researcher Dimitri Coelho Mollo will be giving us a sneak peak of his upcoming seminar for the SS2020 "Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence" and present his current work on the project "Concept of Intelligence" (PIs: Michael Pauen, Miriam Kyselo, John-Dylan Haynes).

Thursday morning talk How to sway voters Across the world, politicians challenging the established elite are rising. Presenting contrarian views with high confidence, these politicians challenge the status quo, calling for a radically different course of action, often going against scientific evidence. Systematic investigations of the success of such ‘contrarian’ strategies are, however, absent. Though

Thursday Morning Lectures (on Zoom) Natural Language Representations in the Human Brain   Abstract An integral part of human language is the capacity to extract the meaning of words through different sensory modalities. For example, humans can easily comprehend the meaning of language presented through auditory speech or written text. However, how the human brain

Thursday Morning Talk (on Zoom) Abstract: One of the assumptions made in the original SCIoI proposal is that intelligence is non-decomposable. This means that intelligent behavior results to a large degree from the interactions between component and not only from the components themselves.  Components have different names, depending on what discipline you are from.  If