<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><h1 dir="ltr" id="m_2817110477552920122m_8914065554018064777gmail-docs-internal-guid-6ac21b8b-7fff-03b3-cfb2-204f2032e304" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Posting on behalf of Nadine Spychala, University of Sussex: </span></font></h1><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><h1 dir="ltr" id="m_2817110477552920122m_8914065554018064777gmail-docs-internal-guid-6ac21b8b-7fff-03b3-cfb2-204f2032e304" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Dear all, </span></font></h1><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class="">we invite you to participate in a <b class="">one-day online-only symposium</b> on <b class="">21st October 2022</b>: </font><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><font size="4" class="">Rethinking Computational Approaches to the Mind </font><br class="">- Fundamental Challenges and Future Perspectives -<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This event will bring together researchers with expertise in various areas such as complexity<font size="2" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> science, machine learning & artificial intelligence, information theory & data science, as well as computational/theoretical neuroscience & philosophy to explore different computational approaches in the study of the “mind” (in brains and/or machines):</span></font><ol style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="gmail-im"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">What are those approaches essentially about?</span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">What are major benefits & caveats?</span></font></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Do different approaches speak to, complement, or contradict each other?</span></font></div></li></span><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class=""><font size="2" class="">What are the current challenges in computational approaches to understand the mind, and what could bring progress?</font></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The event is organized within the “</span><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.sussex.ac.uk%2fsensation%2f&c=E,1,8IdFMpHZX6yAG9JgEESJXq5l9I4wxLKQH0bZePFxVLil8FpZ9A4Zq9HuEPi6DWZ8lVu_i4APxC_5ZVK3WtUEbT_eNV1UmhTQSSJR1-b-SS0-0-J-&typo=1" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Sensation and Perception to Awareness: Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">” at the University of Sussex, and will comprise a set of talks followed by a panel discussion. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Find more info - including how to register - on our </span><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fcomputationalmind.github.io%2f&c=E,1,KTt-vpj0SVpK6gUg-R5xpgiVF1G2RI0r86ZbpbWzosNcIc2szEJTYaITJdkYmetA6v9l1zEJtOBCHIKmxABY6Dk5z2ifkXv1XYyko3w1HyIe&typo=1" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">event website</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">. </span></font>Feel free to spread widely in your networks and/or <a href="https://twitter.com/NadineSpychala/status/1567823963421642752" class="">retweet our post</a>.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We look forward to a day of exciting talks and discussions!</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Nadine Spychala, Tomasz Korbak, & Federico Micheli (event organizers)</span></font></p></div></body></html>