Conference on 'Physics and the Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives'

We were treated to the following talks:

• Professor David Papineau (King’s College London) – 'Causation, Control, and Agency'

• Dr. Saakshi Dulani (Johns Hopkins University) – 'Value in Coarse-Graining'

• Charles Green (King’s College London) – 'Physics, Perception, and Objectivity'

• Konstantinos Voukydis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) – 'Between the Phenomenal and the Physical: Phenomenal Conscious Experience and Epistemic Access to the Physical World'

• Professor Harald Atmanspacher (ETH Zürich) – 'Dual-Aspect Monism and the Deep Structure of Meaning'

• Dr. Jonathan Emery (King’s College London) – 'Carroll's Argument from EQFT against Interactionist Dualism'

• Dr. Markus Müller (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna) – 'Wigner's Friend in Contexts Beyond Quantum Theory'

• Dr. Viktoria Kabel (ETH Zürich) – 'Quantum References Frames: Internal vs. Global Perspectives'

• Dr. Nadia Blackshaw (London School of Economics) – 'Mind the Gap: From Microtubules to Consciousness'

• Professor Karl Friston (University College London) – 'Self-Organisation and Sentience'

• Maria Luiza Iennaco (University of Sao Paolo and University of Porto) – 'Attending to My(self): Subjective Experience, Active Inference, and Attention'

• Panel Discussion and Q&A – 'Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Innovation for Early Career Researchers: How and Why?' Chaired by Professor Barry Smith (Institute of Philosophy, London)