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 of science, where an early focus on “essence questions” (‘What is x?’) is replaced by a later focus on “structural questions” (‘How do we model x?’). I discuss the prospects for investigating the structure of consciousness, and I argue that to investigate such questions is to pursue an “objective phenomenology.”
