Lisbon and Bochum Workshop on the Possibility of Flourishing with Generative AI

This one-day workshop brings together researchers from Lisbon and Bochum to discuss the manuscript of Robert Clowes’s book Brave New Minds: Generative AI as Cognitive Ecology and What It Means for Our Future. Each speaker will discuss one of the book’s chapters in a 35-minute presentation, followed by 10 minutes of questions and answers and a final response from Robert Clowes. The workshop is organised by the GENAI Exploratory Project and the Lisbon Mind, Cognition and Knowledge Group, in collaboration with Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Programme

Morning

10:30–11:00 Robert Clowes (IFILNOVA and Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Introducing Brave New Minds

11:00–11:45 Marcin Lewiński (IFILNOVA)
Responding to Chapter 1, “Dialogical AI and Human Minds”

11:45–12:00 Coffee break

12:00–12:45 James Pearson (Centre of Philosophy, University of Lisbon)
Responding to Chapter 4, “Creative Thinking within Conceptual Spaces”

12:45–14:00 Lunch

Afternoon

14:00–14:45 Klaus Gärtner (IFILNOVA)
Responding to Chapter 2, “Chatbot Ontology and the Mind-Technology Problem”

14:45–15:30 Paulo Castro (ISCTE-Sintra School of Digital Technologies)
Responding to Chapter 11, “Chimeras of the Self: Duplicates, Mimics, and Personnel Identity”

15:30–15:50 Coffee break

15:50–16:35 Renée Ye (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Responding to Chapter 12, “Ersatz Others”

16:35–17:20 Tobias Schlicht (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Responding to Chapters 10 and 12, “Agency, Authenticity & Self-Governance” and “Ersatz Others”