Matteo Cavalli-Sforza - Free will, the brain and deep learning
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Europe/Madrid
Seminar (IFAE)
Seminar
IFAE
Jelena Aleksic
(IFAE), Joern Lange
(IFAE Barcelona), John E Ward
(IFAE)
Description
We like to think that our mental processes are free, and that in the absence of external constraints we are masters of our decisions. However this view is incompatible with the principle of causality, and cannot coexist with scientific determinism. Starting from this philosophical issue, I will argue that the idea of human free will arises from being conscious of only a tiny part of the workings of our brain, a machine whose immense computing power, much greater that any current computer system’s, is only recently beginning to be understood. In parallel to neuroscience, recent progress in Artificial Intelligence, based on extensive and increasingly complex neural networks, has created Deep Learning, a new scientific revolution that will profoundly affect our lives – and our way to do research.
Participants
Abelardo Moralejo
Alícia Labián
Andres Pacheco Pages
Armando Quispe
Bruno Bourguille
Casado Pilar
Chihaya Anzai
Daniel Guberman
Daniel Moreno
David Vázquez Furelos
Dirk Hornung
Emanuele Cavallaro
Eric Peregrina
Federico Sanchez
Gloria De la Rosa
Imma Riu
Isaac Esparbé
Ivan Lopez Paz
Jelena Aleksić
Joaquim Palacio Navarro
Joern Lange
John E Ward
Juli Mundet
Koji Noda
Kovacs Andras
Lluïsa-Maria Mir
Machiel Kolstein
Manel Martinez
Manuel Delfino
Marc Granado
Matthias Jamin
Melis Gonzalez
Michael Leyton
Mirkoantonio Casolin
Nadia Tonello
Oscar Blanch Bigas
Otger Ballester
Paolo Cumani
Pere Masjuan
Rafel Escribano
Raimon Casanova
Ramon Miquel
Ramon Pascual
Rudin Petrossian-Byrne
Sara Strauch
Stefano Terzo
Thorsten Lux
Victor Cancer
Xabier Llobregat
13:00
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13:05
Introduction and General Announcements5m
Speakers:
Joern Lange
(IFAE Barcelona), DrJohn E Ward
(IFAE), DrStefano Terzo
(IFAE)