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Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
Workshop on Reality+
Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
David J. Chalmers
Monday January 9th 2023 / 9 to 5 pm – Mila, 6650 Saint-Urbain, Ground Floor – room Agora, Montreal, QC H2S 3G9.
9:00 – 9:15 Opening Remarks by Jocelyn Maclure, Department of Philosophy, McGill University and Jonathan Simon, Department of Philosophy, Digital Minds Project, Université de Montréal
9:15 – 9:35 Overview of Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy. David Chalmers, Department of Philosophy, New York University
9:35 – 10:15 The it-from-bit hypothesis in reality. Karina Vold, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto
10:20 – 11:00 Knowledge+: Simulation and its Epistemic Gain. Aude Bandini, Department of Philosophy, Université de Montréal
11:20 – 12:00 Fitting Feelings for Virtual Things? Christopher Howard, Department of Philosophy, McGill University
1:30 – 2:10 VR data the key to human-like AI. Blake Richmards, Montreal Neurological Institute/School of Computer Science, McGill University/Mila
2:15 – 2:55 AI Research and the Metaverse. Joëlle Pineau, School of Computer Science, McGill University/Mila/Meta
3:15 – 3:55 A neural dynamics implementation of ineffability of qualia. Yoshua Bengio, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, Université de Montréal/Mila
3:55 – 4:45 Final Remarks by David Chalmers and General Discussion