| FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2025 - Symposium Day 1 | ||
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| 7:00 AM - 8:45 AM | Breakfast at hotel for hotel guests | |
| 11:00 AM | Shuttle from hotel to venue |
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| 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Ribbon cuttings
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| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Registration + Lunch
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| 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM | David Krakauer + Melanie Mitchell (SFI): Welcome + Introduction
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| 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | David Wallace (University of Pittsburgh) "Emergence and Equilibrium"
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| 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Discussion
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| 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Break
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| 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM | Andrea Liu (University of Pennsylvania + SFI) "Tunable Matter: A Paradigm for Emergence of Complex Functionality"
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| 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM | Discussion
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| 3:45 PM - 4:00 PM | Break
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| 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Blaise Agüera y Arcas (Google Research) "The Cybernetics of Consciousness: Why Prediction Feels Like Something"
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| 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Panel Discussion on Consciousness: Melanie Mitchell (SFI) Moderator, Blaise Agüera y Arcas (Google Research), David Krakauer (SFI), John Krakauer (Johns Hopkins University + SFI), Tom McCarthy (Writer + SFI)
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| 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM | Discussion
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| 5:15 PM - 8:00 PM | Reception + Dinner + After-Dinner Talk
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| 5:15 PM - 6:00 PM | Reception
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| 6 :00 PM - 7:00 PM | Dinner
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| 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM | Agnieszka Kurant (Conceptual Artist) "Collective Intelligence"
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| 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM | Discussion
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| 8:00 PM -8:30 PM | Shuttles to hotel
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| SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2025 - Symposium Day 2 | ||
| 7:00 AM - 8:45 AM | Breakfast at hotel for hotel guests
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| 8:45 AM | Shuttle from hotel to venue
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| 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Kyle Harper (University of Oklahoma + SFI) "Emergence and Direction in Human History"
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| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Discussion
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| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Break
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| 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM | David Gracias (Johns Hopkins University) "Embodying Intelligence in Soft Matter through Biochemical and Cellular Interactions"
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| 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM | Discussion
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| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch
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| 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM | David Krakauer (SFI) "The Emergence of Intelligence in Machine Minds"
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| 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Discussion
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| 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM | Break
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| 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM | Rosemary Braun (Northwestern University + SFI) "Complexity and Emergent Regularity in Living Systems"
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| 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM | Discussion
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| 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM | Break
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| 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM | General Discussion
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| 4:30 PM | Shuttles (or self-drive) to restaurant
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| 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM | Reception + Dinner
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