Philosophy

Neuro-symbolic AI – Why the Future of Artificial Intelligence Needs More Than Just Data 🤖 🧠 🔮 Does simply scaling up massive language models (LLMs) and big data gradually lead to true Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)? The answer is no. Purely data-driven empiricism...See more

🧠🤖✨ Can AI Develop Consciousness? – On the Path to Artificial General Intelligence – Kaleidoscope of Science, Episode 4 Modern language models like ChatGPT or Gemini fascinate us every day with their linguistic precision. But are we already witnessing true understanding...See more

🧠🔬 Can consciousness actually be tested? Reflections on the C-Test Workshop in Bamberg While physics is learning how stars form and apples fall, the opposite is often true in consciousness research: With every new discovery, the unanswered questions become even more...See more

🧩🤖 What Is the Mind? – A Conversation with Gottfried Vosgerau on Natural and Artificial Consciousness The question of what consciousness actually is ranks among the oldest and, at the same time, most difficult problems in philosophy. What exactly are mental states? How does...See more

Artificial Consciousness: Why Current AI Presents Us with the Perfect Illusion The debate over artificial consciousness never really goes away—it just regularly takes on new technical guises. Yesterday it was simple neural networks; today it’s large language models and...See more

🧠🤖 AIM for the Brain – How AI and Neuroscience Come Together At the kickoff event for the new workshop series “AIM for – Artificial Intelligence in Münster for Science” organized by the Center for Data Science and Complexity (CDSC) at the University of Münster, it quickly...See more

🤖AI as a Muse🎨for Science🔬? A Lecture by Mario Krenn on Creativity, Physics, and the Future of Research Last week in the Applied Physics lecture hall in Münster: Mario Krenn’s lecture on “Towards an Artificial Muse for New Ideas in Physics” impressively demonstrated just how...See more

🧬⚛️ “Science does not demystify the world—it makes it more mysterious.” In our new Zoomposium, we speak with science historian and science communicator Ernst Peter Fischer about a fascinating thesis: 👉 Modern science has become romantic. What sounds paradoxical at first...See more

🧠 “Is Intelligence a Mathematical Structure?”🔢 – Zoomposium with Prof. Dr. Gitta Kutyniok The Key to the Next Generation of Intelligent Systems – On Computability, Limits, and the Future of AI This question is at the heart of our Zoom symposium with Prof. Dr. Gitta...See more

🧠 What is consciousness—and can science really explain it🔬? One of the most fascinating questions of our time: Is consciousness simply a product of the brain—or is there more to it than that? In our new Zoomposium, we’ll be talking with Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht (Ruhr...See more

Zoomposium with Thomas Metzinger, Part 2: 🤖 Self-Models, Neuromorphic AI & the Future of Our Culture of Consciousness 🧠 What is the “I”—and could a machine one day develop its own? In the second part of the conversation with Thomas Metzinger, the self-model theory of...See more