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<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">What does it take to compare theories of consciousness side by
side—across disciplines, data types, and ontologies?</font></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">CFP: Comparative Testing of Models of
Consciousness...</font></font></p><p style="line-height: 100%; font-style:
normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">1 Purpose</font></font></h4><p style="line-height: 100%; font-style:
normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;">This workshop invites
submissions of 2-page briefs about any model of </span></em><em><span
style="font-style: normal;">consciousness</span></em><em><span
style="font-style: normal;"> of your choice, to explore whether a functional
model of </span></em><em><span style="font-style:
normal;">consciousness</span></em><em><span style="font-style: normal;"> can
be used </span></em><em><span style="font-style: normal;">facilitate
convergence in understanding of consciousness models</span></em><em><span
style="font-style: normal;">. </span></em>Consciousness science lacks a
common yardstick: theories proliferate but rarely converge. This workshop
tests whether concise, function-centred descriptions can reveal where models
align, where they diverge, and which features help—or
hinder—comparison.</font></font></p><p style="line-height: 100%; font-style:
normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">We
welcome submissions from theorists, philosophers, neuroscientists, modelers,
and experimentalists working on consciousness from any disciplinary
lens.</font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="line-height:
100%; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><strong>2 Core
Question</strong></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<blockquote style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Which features of a consciousness
model promote—or block—convergence?</span></font></font></strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br>Consider minimalism,
falsifiability, separation of function and implementation, human-centric
framing, or any other property.</span></font></font><br></blockquote>
<blockquote style="line-height: 100%; font-style: normal; margin-bottom:
0in;"> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">Explain, in functional terms, how your own definition of consciousness
enables—or prevents—comparison with rival models. If the friction is purely
implementation-level, say why that is (or is not) a
barrier.</font></font></blockquote> <h4 class="western" style="line-height:
100%; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br>
</h4> <h4 class="western" style="line-height: 100%; font-style: normal;
margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">3 First- vs. third-person data</font></font></h4><p
style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.49in;"> <font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span
style="font-style: normal;">External proxies (EEG, fMRI, behaviour) are
reproducible </span></font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">metrics for
consciousness</span></font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">, yet mapping proxy
</span></font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to</span></font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> experience still reflects the
researcher’s own interpretive choices.</span></font></font><br></p><p
style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.49in;"> <strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Can your model make first-person
reports inter-subjectively reliable, and should that be a priority for
convergence?</span></font></font></strong></p> <h4 class="western"
style="line-height: 100%; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom:
0in;"> <br> </h4> <h4 class="western" style="line-height: 100%;
font-style: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">4 What
to include in the two-page brief</font></font></h4><p style="line-height:
100%; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">Use numbered headings; total length ≤ 2 pages (A4 or US-letter,
PDF).</font></font></p> <ol> <li><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom:
0in;"><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Existence criterion — baseline
capacity</span></font></font></strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br></span></font></font><em>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">What structural or functional
conditions make a system capable of conscious experience at all times, even
when it happens to be asleep or anaesthetised?</span></font></font></em></p>
<ul> <li><p style="line-height: 100%; font-style: normal; margin-bottom:
0in;"> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">Examples: integrated-information threshold, global-workspace
potential, specific organisational motifs.</font></font></p></li> </ul>
<li><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Magnitude metric — baseline
degree</span></font></font></strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br></span></font></font><em>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">If consciousness can vary in
overall richness across entities, how is a higher or lower capacity
quantified (e.g., Φ value, network complexity, representational
bandwidth)?</span></font></font></em></p> <ul> <li><p style="line-height:
100%; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">Clarify
that this refers to persistent potential, not moment-to-moment attention
to a particular stimulus.</font></font></p></li> </ul> <li><p
style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Observable state-transition
markers</span></font></font></strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br><br>Measurable events
signalling a shift from one awareness state to another (button press,
saccade, EEG microstate, etc.).</span></font></font></p> <ul> <li><p
style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><em>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">If you rely on first-person
reports, state the calibration protocol that makes those reports
inter-subjectively testable (training, code-book, reliability
stats).</span></font></font></em></p></li> </ul> <li><p style="line-height:
100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Non-observable adaptive
functions</span></font></font></strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br><br>Internal control processes
that guide transitions; explain how their existence is
inferred.</span></font></font></p></li> <li><p style="line-height: 100%;
margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Non-mappable
functions</span></font></font></strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br><br>Functions that currently
lack any human-centric mapping to external or internal observables; justify
why the gap is principled, not merely
technical.<br></span></font></font></p></li></ol> <h4 class="western"
style="line-height: 100%; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom:
0in;"> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">5 Pre-workshop activities</font></font></h4><p style="line-height:
100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><em>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Anonymous terminology
poll</span></font></font></em>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> – Optional; gauges how participants
label core constructs.<br></span></font></font><em>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Brief
booklet</span></font></font></em>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> – All accepted briefs, a comparison
matrix, and poll results will be circulated one week in advance
(DOI-assigned).<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"
style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-style:
normal;"><br> </span></font></font></span></font></font></p> <h4
class="western" style="line-height: 100%; font-style: normal; margin-top:
0in; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"
style="font-size: 12pt;">6 Workshop agenda (60 min)</font></font></h4> <table
width="665" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"> <colgroup><col width="595">
<col width="62"> <thead> <tr> <th width="595" style="padding: 0in;
border: currentColor; border-image: none;"><p align="left" style="font-style:
normal;"> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"
style="font-size: 12pt;">Segment</font></font></p> </th> <th width="62"
style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor; border-image: none;"><p
style="font-style: normal;"> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">Minutes</font></font></p> </th> </tr>
</thead> <tbody> <tr> <td width="595" style="padding: 0in; border:
currentColor; border-image: none;"><p style="font-style: normal;"> <font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">Terminology heat-map & quick findings</font></font></p>
</td> <td width="62" style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor;
border-image: none;"><p style="font-style: normal;"> <font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">5</font></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="595"
style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor; border-image: none;"><p
style="font-style: normal;"> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">Three brief presentations (5 min
each)</font></font></p> </td> <td width="62" style="padding: 0in;
border: currentColor; border-image: none;"><p style="font-style: normal;">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">15</font></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="595"
style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor; border-image: none;"><p
style="font-style: normal;"> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">Moderated cross-model
comparison</font></font></p> </td> <td width="62" style="padding: 0in;
border: currentColor; border-image: none;"><p style="font-style: normal;">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">20</font></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="595"
style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor; border-image: none;"><p><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Convergence
frameworks</span></font></font></strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> – short demos (e.g.,
Human-Centric Functional Modeling </span></font></font><em>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">as one
candidate</span></font></font></em>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">, alternatives
welcome)</span></font></font></p> </td> <td width="62" style="padding:
0in; border: currentColor; border-image: none;"><p style="font-style:
normal;"> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"
style="font-size: 12pt;">10</font></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td
width="595" style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor; border-image:
none;"><p style="font-style: normal;"> <font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">Q
& A / next steps</font></font></p> </td> <td width="62"
style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor; border-image: none;"><p
style="font-style: normal;"> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">10</font></font></p> </td> </tr>
</tbody> </table> <h4 class="western" style="line-height: 100%; font-style:
normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></h4><h4 class="western"
style="line-height: 100%; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom:
0in;">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">7 Evaluation rubric</font></font></h4><p style="line-height: 100%;
font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">Each
submission will be scored across four dimensions to build a shared matrix of
concepts, assumptions, and testability across models.</font></font></p>
<table width="665" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"> <colgroup><col
width="117"> <col width="147"> <col width="191"> <col width="194">
<thead> <tr> <th width="117" style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor;
border-image: none;"><p>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">Dimension</font></p> </th> <th
width="147" style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor; border-image:
none;"><p>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">What it measures</font></p> </th>
<th width="191" style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor; border-image:
none;"><p>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">Why it matters for </font><em>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">every</font></em>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"> submission</font></p> </th> <th
width="194" style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor; border-image:
none;"><p>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">Typical evidence you can
supply</font></p> </th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td
width="117" style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor; border-image:
none;"><p><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;">1
Ontological clarity</span></font></strong></p> </td> <td
width="147" style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor; border-image:
none;"><p>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;">How
precisely you define the </span></font><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;">core
units</span></font></strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> in
your model (e.g., “awareness state,” “global workspace event,”
“Φ-structure”).</span></font></p> </td> <td width="191" style="padding:
0in; border: currentColor; border-image: none;"><p>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">If reviewers can’t tell what your
primitives are, they can’t align them with others. </font><em>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">Every</font></em>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"> model—mathematical, philosophical, or
neural—must name its building blocks.</font></p> </td> <td
width="194" style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor; border-image:
none;"><p>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">Formal definitions, diagrams, state
tables, information-theoretic expressions.</font></p> </td> </tr>
<tr> <td width="117" style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor;
border-image: none;"><p><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;">2
Cross-model mapping</span></font></strong></p> </td> <td
width="147" style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor; border-image:
none;"><p style="font-weight: normal;"> <font
face="Times New Roman, serif">The explicit links you draw between your
terms and at least one other published theory.</font></p> </td> <td
width="191" style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor; border-image:
none;"><p>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">Convergence requires a shared
coordinate system. Even a radically new model should say, </font><em>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">“My X corresponds roughly to IIT’s
integrated information and to GNW’s ignition pattern.”</font></em></p>
</td> <td width="194" style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor;
border-image: none;"><p>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">Side-by-side glossary, translation
matrix, or narrative comparison.</font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td
width="117" style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor; border-image:
none;"><p><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;">3
Empirical discriminability</span></font></strong></p> </td> <td
width="147" style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor; border-image:
none;"><p>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Whether
your brief offers </span></font><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-weight:
normal;">testable predictions or differentiators</span></font></strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
that could, in principle, pit your model against a
rival.</span></font></p> </td> <td width="191" style="padding: 0in;
border: currentColor; border-image: none;"><p>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">Without a potential discriminator,
models can agree to disagree forever. Both data-heavy and concept-heavy
submissions can propose critical tests (“If Φ < 0.2, awareness is
impossible,” or “Split-brain subjects must report dual
streams”).</font></p> </td> <td width="194" style="padding: 0in;
border: currentColor; border-image: none;"><p>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">Concrete experiment outline,
simulation results, falsifiable inequality, or at minimum a
thought-experiment that yields opposite outcomes for two
models.</font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="117" style="padding:
0in; border: currentColor; border-image: none;"><p><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;">4
First-person calibration</span></font></strong></p> </td> <td
width="147" style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor; border-image:
none;"><p>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;">How
you make </span></font><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-weight:
normal;">first-person reports</span></font></strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
inter-subjectively reliable </span></font><em>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-weight:
normal;">if</span></font></em>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
your model depends on them.</span></font></p> </td> <td width="191"
style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor; border-image: none;"><p>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">Many theories invoke phenomenology.
Reviewers need to know whether your introspective data are ad-hoc
anecdotes (score 0) or produced under a reproducible protocol (score 2).
Purely third-person models can still score >0 if they justify
</font><em>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">why</font></em>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"> first-person data are
unnecessary.</font></p> </td> <td width="194" style="padding: 0in;
border: currentColor; border-image: none;"><p>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">Micro-phenomenology training
procedure, code-book, reliability statistics, or a principled argument
for excluding introspection.</font></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
<h4 class="western" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></h4><h4
class="western" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">How scoring works (0 – 2
scale)</font></h4> <ul> <li><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom:
0in;">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">0 = missing or hand-wavy</font></strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><br>The brief omits the dimension or
treats it in a single vague sentence.</font></font></p></li> <li><p
style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">1 = partially addressed</font></strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><br>A definition or test is sketched but
lacks precision, mapping, or replication detail.</font></font></p></li>
<li><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">2 = fully operationalised</font></strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><br>Clear, unambiguous definitions;
explicit mapping; concrete, falsifiable tests; or a validated introspection
protocol.</font></font></p></li> </ul><p style="line-height: 100%;
margin-bottom: 0in;">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">Every submission is evaluated on all four
dimensions so the booklet’s comparison matrix is apples-to-apples. If a
dimension truly does not apply (e.g., a purely mathematical existence proof
that makes no empirical claims), you should mark it </font><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">“Not Applicable—see
justification”</font></strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">; reviewers then decide whether a 0 or 1
is warranted.<br><br></font></font></p> <h4 class="western"
style="line-height: 100%; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom:
0in;"> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">8 Submission details</font></font></h4> <ul> <li><p
style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">Upload</font></font></strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">
via EasyChair (</font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">specify</font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">
“</font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><i>Afternoon</i></font></font><em>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">
Session” </font></font></em><em>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">in
title</font></font></em>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">).
</font></font><a
href="https://easychair.org/conferences2/submissions?a=34995586">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">https://easychair.org/conferences2/submissions?a=34995586</font></font></a>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">
</font></font> </p></li> <li><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom:
0in;"><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">Deadline</font></font></strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">:
</font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">July 24, 2025</font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">.</font></font></p></li> <li><p style="line-height: 100%;
margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">Presentation</font></font></strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">:
3-minute lightning talk + live coherence diagnosis.</font></font></p></li>
<li><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><b>Date and Schedule:</b></font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">
The workshop will be held </font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">1</font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">:00 </font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">p</font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">m
to 2:00 pm local time in Reykjavik, Iceland where the AGI-2025 conference
is being held. </font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;">The workshop program is here: <a
href="https://agi-conf.org/2025/workshops/">https://agi-conf.org/2025/workshops/</a></font></font></p></li>
<li><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;"><a
href="https://easychair.org/conferences2/submissions?a=34995586">https://easychair.org/conferences2/submissions?a=34995586</a></font></font></p></li>
<li><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style:
normal;">Archiving</span></font></font></strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">: Accepted briefs
</span></font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">are intended</span></font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">for</span></font></font><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></font></font></strong><strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the special issue of a journal to
be decided,</span></font></font></strong>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:
12pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> and will be cross-linked in an
open repository for post-workshop comparison and iterative
refinement.<br></span></font></font></p></li></ul> <h3 class="western"
style="line-height: 100%; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">9<span
style="font-style: normal;"> </span>Who should submit</font></font></h3><p
style="line-height: 100%; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">We
invite theorists, experimentalists, philosophers, and computational
modellers. Frameworks that challenge the human-centric stance—or extend
it—are equally welcome. Our goal is to leave the hour with a clearer map of
why our models speak past each other and how to bring them into constructive
contact.</font></font></p> </div><script
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