Events & News
NEW PAPER: AI is not as conscious as humans: Essentialism in mental state attributions to artificial systems
Co-authored with Louis Longin, Jurgis Karpus, Bahador Bahrami, and Ophelia Deroy
Cognition, 2026
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TALK: The Collective Mind of Bacteria? On the Role of Concepts in Explaining Bacterial Behaviour
The 12th European Congress for Analytic Philosophy 2026 Madrid
NEW Pre-print: What Is It To Be Aware? A Pragmatic Approach to Comparing Animal Awareness
PsyArXiv (2026)
TALK: A Multidimensional Framework for Artificial Awareness
Workshop on AI and Consciousness at LMU Munich (Nov 2025)
TALK: Collaborative awareness: A threefold perspective on group awareness in animals
European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 2024 Grenoble
WORKSHOP: Inside the Ethics of AI Awareness
Organised event: EIC portfolio ethics meeting, Brussels (Sept. 2023)
ONLINE TALK: Just Aware Enough: Evaluating Awareness Across Artificial and Biological systems
Consciousness-Tests workshop
Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative (June 2026)
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NEW Pre-print: Just aware enough: Evaluating awareness across artificial systems
arXiv (2026)
POSTER: A Framework for the Examination of Artificial Awareness
co-authored with Suet Lee
Living Machines 2025, Sheffield
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POSTER: Can Awareness be Fairly Evaluated Across Systems?
European Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2026 Utrecht
TALK: IIT at the boundaries: Challenges from nonhuman consciousness
Workshop "From Integrated information to conscious experience"
LMU Munich (Nov. 2025)
SYMPOSIUM: Foundations of Animal Consciousness: Beyond Apes
Contributed talk: "Beyond Consciousness: Mapping Animal Awareness in a Multidimensional Framework"
Co-organised with Azenet Lopez
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 2025, Heraklion
TALK: A Functional Account of Awareness: Experimental Insights and Ethical Considerations for AI
Workshop: Inside the Ethics of AI Awareness, Uppsala (Nov. 2024)
ONLINE TALK: Comparative AI: Towards a Dimensional Framework for Artificial Awareness
Empirically Informed Philosophy of Mind online Seminar, Institut d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques, Paris (April 2025)
NEW PAPER: Hedonic valence at the core of consciousness
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, 2024
TALK: A Functional Account of Awareness in Animals
European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 2023 Prague
Media
A selection of interviews, videos, and other science communication activities I've taken part in, related to my research on awareness, artificial intelligence, and animal minds.