Cognition and Agency Beyond Humans and Animals with Michael Abramson

About this event

Join us for the next installment of our Fragments to Agents series, featuring a presentation by Michael Abramson. In this session, Michael will explore the concepts of cognition and agency extending far beyond the human and animal kingdoms. The presentation will revolve around a review of several key academic papers: • Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition • Principles of Minimal Cognition: Casting Cognition as Sensorimotor Coordination • Biological agency: a concept without a research program • Updating Darwin: biologists are returning to an older theory to explain anomalies in evolution Following the paper review, we will dive into an interactive group discussion covering: • "Why" and "How": two sides of the same coin • Selection and system dynamics • Subjective experience, agency, and cognition • The superpower of superhuman AI