Is Consciousness a Story We Tell Ourselves?

Internal language and consciousness after chain of thought reasoning.

Where and when? A Symposium at the AISB Convention 2026 aisb.org.uk/aisb-convention-2026 1-2 July 2026 University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Hosted by The Society for the study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour Organizers Conor Houghton conorhoughton.github.io / conor.houghton@bristol.ac.uk Jonathon Shock shocklab.net Seth Bullock homepage

Plan

The workshop will take place on the afternoon of Thursday 2 July in Woodlands 3

• Session A (14h to 15h): panel discussion. Is consciousness a story we tell ourselves? with Anil Seth, Christopher Buckley and Max Jones, chaired by Seth Bullock.
• Session B (15h to 15h30): contributed talks. Šekrst Kristina, Luc Steels
• Coffee (15h30 to 16h).
• Session C (16h to 17h): panel discussion. Is consciousness an experimental question? with Andy Philippides, Charlène Aubinet, Kevin Mitchell and Jon Shock, chaired by Conor Houghton.
• Session D (17h to 17h30): contributed talks. Vaishnavi Singh, Eloise Gaines-White