Connectionists: Workshop on Combining Information-theoretic Perspectives on Agency (CIPA) in Tokyo (January 28-29, 2020)

[martin biehl]

Dear all,

We are organising a workshop on Combining Information-theoretic
Perspectives on Agency (CIPA). The workshop is scheduled for January
28-29, 2020 at Komaba campus, the University of Tokyo, Japan.
Registration is free.

Find the website here: http://cipa-workshop.weebly.com/

The CIPA workshop has a two-day program, curated by the research group
at Araya Inc. (www.araya.org), funded by the Japan Science and
Technology Agency (JST). The goal of this workshop is to bring
together information theorists and neuroscientists to discuss the
relations between information-theoretic concepts and the foundations
of agency. Topics in the foundations of agency include:

Individuality and boundaries
Goal-directedness
Action and perception
Information-theoretic concepts include:
Emergence
Intrinsic motivations
Thermodynamics
Bayesian / Free Energy agents
Transfer entropy
Non-trivial information closure
Integrated Information Theory (IIT)

Speakers:
Larissa Albantakis - University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
Shunichi Amari - RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Martin Biehl - Araya Inc., Japan
Takuya Isomura - RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan
Sosuke Ito - The University of Tokyo, Japan
Pedro Mediano - Imperial College London, UK
Fernando Rosas - Imperial College London, UK
Christoph Salge - University of Hertfordshire, UK
Hideaki Shimazaki - Kyoto University / Honda Research Institute Japan
Susanne Still - University of Hawaii, US
Masatoshi Yoshida - National Institute for Physiological Sciences /
Hokkaido University, Japan


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Workshop Organisers:

Ryota Kanai (Araya Inc.)
Masafumi Oizumi (The University of Tokyo)
Acer Chang (Araya Inc.)
Martin Biehl (Araya Inc.)
Yen Yu (Araya Inc.)
Hiroaki Hamada (Araya Inc.)
Masaru Kuwabara (Araya Inc.)
Ippei Fujisawa (Araya Inc.)