Academic Talks

Giving talks has taken me all over the world, from Australia to India.

AI, neuroscience, and architecture. DigitalFutures discussion with Refik Anadol, June
Extended reality in cognitive neuroscience: opportunities and challenges, CIFAR workshop, remote May

Measuring consciousness, LUMINOUS, Oxford, Nov
COGS Open lecture, Brighton, Oct
Prolonged disorders of consciousness, Wellington Hospital, London, Oct
Conscious perception and controlled hallucination, BrainMind summit, Stanford CA, Oct
Are there islands of awareness? British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cambridge, Sep
Consciousness and the quantum, Sussex Quantum Day, Brighton, Jul
Neurophenomenology of real and simulated psychedelia, BSMS, Brighton, Jul
ASSC23, London, Ontario, Jun
Kinds of Intelligence 2, Machine Minds, Cambridge Jun
Mind and Life summer research institute, New York NY, Jun
Moderated Q&A on the neuroscience of consciousness, British Neuroscience Association, Dublin, Apr

Neurophenomenology of real and simulated psychedelia, MAPSIG group, Brighton, Nov
Neurophenomenology of synaesthesia, ‘Bridging the Senses’, Royal Society, London, Oct
Predictive processing and phenomenology, Monash Consciousness Workshop, Aegina, Greece, Sep
The neuroscience of consciousness, Apple Research, Cupertino CA, Jul
Perceptual uniformity and low-level sensory adaptation, ASSC22 oral presentation, Krakow, Jun
Neurophenomenology of real and simulated psychedelia, CIFAR Prog. meeting, Krakow, Jun
Neurophenomenology of real and simulated psychedelia, KNAW, Amsterdam, Jun
Neurophenomenology of real and simulated psychedelia, Neurizons, Goettingen, Jun
Predictive processing and perceptual phenomenology, Allahabad University, India, Apr
Neurophenomenology of the psychedelic state, TSC2018, Tucson AZ, Apr
Machine consciousness and ethics, a panel discussion, CIFAR Brain Symposium, Toronto, Mar
Predictive processing and phenomenology, CIFAR Brain Symposium, Toronto, Mar
Predictive processing and phenomenology, Reconstructing the Mind, Cambridge, Jan

The real problem of consciousness, CIFAR winter school, Montebello, Quebec, Dec
The real problem of consciousness, Elsass Foundation midsummer lecture, Copenhagen, Sep
The real problem of consciousness, BCBT Summer School, Barcelona, Aug
Consciousness: temperature or life, The Human Mind Conference, Cambridge, June
Being a beast machine, plenary symposium, ASSC21, Beijing, June
Being a beast machine, Sense of Self Workshop, Oxford, May
Neurobiological signatures of natural and trained synaesthesia, Sussex Neuroscience Day, May
The real problem of consciousness, Human Brain Project meeting, Paris, Mar
Neurobiological signatures of natural and trained synaesthesia, University of Pennsylvania, Feb
From Helmholtz to the Beholder’s Share, University of Pennsylvania, Feb
Brain, mind, and consciousness, V&A Museum & Sussex University launch event, Jan

The new neuroscience of consciousness, Queensland Brain Institute, Brisbane, Nov (keynote)
The new neuroscience of consciousness, Brain & Mind School, Berlin, Oct (distinguished 10th anniversary invited lecture)
From Helmholtz to the Beholder’s Share, Reconsidering Humanity II, Paris, Sep
On memory and mind: in conversation with Nick Payne, THMP workshop, Brighton, Jul
Expect yourself, What makes us human? Summer school, MPI Leipzig, Jul
Expect yourself, ENCECON meeting on neurophenomenology, Bordeaux, Jun
Phenomenology and mechanism in consciousness science, CIFAR meeting, London, May
Expect yourself, Towards a Science of Consciousness plenary lecture, Tucson AZ, Apr
Towards a neuroscience of consciousness, MPI Human Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Leipzig, Apr
Seeing the expected, Bekinschtein lab talk, Cambridge, Apr
Is there still room for a soul in the modern psyche? Closing debate at the BNPA AGM, London, Feb

Computational pyschiatry and interoceptive inference, Zurich, Dec
Subjective data and the science of consciousness, Paris, Oct
Consciousness: a functional perspective, Jerusalem, August
Big data in the brain, Reconsidering Humanity, Gothenburg, Jun
Consciousness science: a brief history. Ax:son Johnson Foundation, Stockholm, Jun
EPOS summer school on predictive coding. Amsterdam, Jun
The Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, Sackler Foundation Meeting, New York, Apr
*The cybernetic Bayesian brain, AISB annual convention, keynote lecture, Canterbury, Apr
Metacognition of interoceptive states, BNA symposium, Edinburgh, Apr
Neurobiological signatures of synaesthesia, KNAW synaesthesia symposium, Amsterdam, Mar
The cybernetic Bayesian brain, Free Energy Workshop, FIL, London, Mar
Interoceptive inference, emotion, and selfhood, Sheffield University Psychology, Sheffield, Mar

Mind the body, Edinburgh Festival of the Humanities: Computers and Minds, Edinburgh, Nov
*MIND group symposium on the Bayesian Brain, guest speaker, Frankfurt, Nov
Interoceptive inference, emotion, and embodiment, Breakspear lab talk, Brisbane, Aug
From predictive coding to integrated information, ICON2014 symposium, Brisbane, July
Conscious level and complexity, ASSC18 plenary symposium, Brisbane, July
Conscious presence and predictive processing, ASSC18 talk, Brisbane, July
Complexity and brain networks, Complexity and Law workshop, University of Sussex, May
Interoceptive inference and selfhood, Lorentz Workshop, Leiden, May
Conscious presence and predictive processing, Lorentz Workshop, Leiden, May
Interoceptive inference, emotion, and embodiment, invited seminar, Lausanne, Apr
Interoceptive inference, emotion, and embodiment, invited seminar, Geneva, Apr
Granger causality in neuroscience, invited talk, Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Apr
Predictive processing and sensorimotor contingencies, AISB invited talk, London, Apr
Interoceptive inference and neuropsychiatry, BSMS Neuroscience Network, Brighton, Jan

Causal networks in brain dynamics, University of Ghent, Dec
Interoceptive inference, emotion, and self, Netherlands Neuroscience Institute, Dec
Interoceptive inference, emotion, and self, University of Glasgow, Aug
From brain based devices to consciousness (special session), ASSC17, San Diego, CA, Jul
Granger causality analysis of intracranial EEG (oral presentation), ASSC17, San Diego, CA, Jul
Tutorial on predictive coding and integrated information theory, ASSC17, San Diego, CA, Jul
Granger causality in neuroscience, Imperial College, London, Apr
Causal density and interoceptive predictive coding, Bernstein Centre for Neuroscience, Berlin, Apr
Granger causality in neuroscience, Centre de research cerveau et cognition, Toulouse, Apr
Explanatory correlates of Consciousness, Philosophy and Psychology group, Edinburgh, Mar
Explanatory correlates of Consciousness, Allahabad University, Allahabad, Feb

Psychosis awareness day: Consciousness science and psychiatry, Brighton, Dec
Neurocog meeting: Consciousness and cognitive control, Brussels, Dec
Maastricht University, neuroimaging seminar, Maastricht, Nov
Donders Institute, colloquium, Nijmegen, Nov
University of Amsterdam, Cognitive Science seminar, Amsterdam, Nov
Consciousness: A research update, Mind Science Foundation retreat, Rockland, ME, Jul
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Brighton, Jul (main organiser)
Consciousness and Causality, ReteCog summer school, Menorca
Brain connectivity symposium, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Apr
National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, Jan
Psychosis awareness day: Consciousness science and psychiatry, Brighton, Dec