categories: Category Theory for Consciousness Science Workshop, Oxford, April 15-16

categories: Category Theory for Consciousness Science Workshop, Oxford, April 15-16

[Sean Tull]

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce a workshop focused on bringing category theory
to consciousness science, to be held in Oxford on 15-16 April 2023.

*Category Theory for Consciousness Science Workshop*
Date: Saturday, 15 April – Sunday, 16 April, 2023
Place: Topos Institute, Oxford
Website: https://amcs-community.org/events/cats4consc-workshop/
Deadline for registrations: 8 March 2023

Our goal is to create a space for new ideas to flourish, and the workshop
will involve interactive discussion sessions as well as contributed and
invited talks. Topics are anything category, cognition and consciousness
related, including:

— Categorical models of consciousness
— Compositional approaches in cognitive science
— Categorification of frameworks for cognition and consciousness
— Categories of spaces of conscious experiences
— Formal treatments of problems of phenomenal consciousness

Confirmed invited speakers:

Bob Coecke
Andrée Ehresmann
Nao Tsuchiya

It would be wonderful if you could join us! Please refer to the workshop
website for further details:
https://amcs-community.org/events/cats4consc-workshop/

The organisers gratefully acknowledge support from FQXi.

Best wishes,

The organisers,
Johannes Kleiner (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Sean Tull (Quantinuum)

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