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The Limits of Consciousness and the Potential for Complexity and Recursion to Underwrite an Alternative

After ‘Consciousness’ Workshop Date: January 27-28, 2026 (Tuesday – Wednesday) Venue: Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Co-Organized by: HKU-AIH Lab & Berggruen Institute China Speaker: Professor Boris Babic, University of Pittsburgh

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Access, Action, and Attention

After ‘Consciousness’ Workshop Date: January 27-28, 2026 (Tuesday – Wednesday) Venue: Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Co-Organized by: HKU-AIH Lab & Berggruen Institute China Speaker: Professor Wayne Wu, University of Pittsburgh Abstract: What are the tools we need to make progress on consciousness? The central tool has been introspection, but I raise questions about introspection

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Reactivity as Replacement: Re-Engineering Consciousness for Science and Policy

After ‘Consciousness’ Workshop Date: January 27-28, 2026 (Tuesday – Wednesday) Venue: Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Co-Organized by: HKU-AIH Lab & Berggruen Institute China Speaker: Professor Keith Frankish, University of Sheffield Abstract: The concept of consciousness as a private inner show of phenomenal qualities is broken. It creates the Hard Problem without helping neuroscience or

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Alien Minds: The Case of Consciousness

After ‘Consciousness’ Workshop Date: January 27-28, 2026 (Tuesday – Wednesday) Venue: Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Co-Organized by: HKU-AIH Lab & Berggruen Institute China  Speaker:Professor Matti Eklund, Uppsala University Abstract: In earlier work I have considered the possibility of alien languages: languages with alien elements, different in kind from elements of familiar languages. Here is

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On the Future of Consciousness

After ‘Consciousness’ Workshop Date: January 27-28, 2026 (Tuesday – Wednesday) Venue: Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Co-Organized by: HKU-AIH Lab & Berggruen Institute China  Speaker: Professor Andrew Lee, University of Toronto Abstract: I argue that the most promising direction for the future of consciousness research is to follow a path that recurs across the history

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Prof James Joyce’s Paper Workshop – Causal Decision Theory for Unratifiable Actions

Date: Novermber 17, 2025 (Mon) Time: 15:00-17:00 Venue: Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Professor James Joyce , C. H. Langford Collegiate Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan Commentors: Professor Jiji Zhang (The Chinese University of HK) Professor Boris Babic (Hong Kong University) Professor Simon Goldstein (Hong Kong University) Professor Kangyu

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Can Learning Truths Make your Beliefs Less Accurate?

Date: Novermber 14, 2025 (Friday) Time: 15:30-17:00 Venue: MB142, 1/F, Main Building, HKU Speaker: Professor James Joyce , C. H. Langford Collegiate Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan Abstract: After introducing the notion of credal accuracy, and explaining why formal epistemologists use strictly proper scoring rules to measure it, I will introduce some well-known accuracy

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