Distinguished Lecture Series: “How to make a robot that feels”
Speaker J. Kevin O’Regan, Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception - CNRS, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
Date 12 January 2012, 18:30
Location
Berlin School of Mind and Brain
Luisenstraße 56, Haus 1
Festsaal, 2nd floor
10117 Berlin
Contact Dr. Katja Crone
Organized in collaboration with Collegium for Advanced Study of Picture Act and Embodiment, Institute of Philosophie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Abstract: Usually ”feel” or, as philosophers often call it, “phenomenal consciousness” or “qualia”, is considered a “hard problem” in consciousness research. There seems to be an “explanatory gap” preventing us from giving a scientific account of feel. I show how the “sensorimotor” approach, by redefining feel as a way of interacting with the world, overcomes this problem. From then on it becomes clear that there is no obstacle to making a robot that feels.
Website: nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr