A Story We Tell
     

Is Consciousness a Story We Tell Ourselves?

Internal language and consciousness after chain of thought reasoning.

Wittgenstein House in Vienna

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