"Virtual Brains & Digital Twins: a Tentative Roadmap, Neuroethical perspectives"
An in-person neuroethics workshop in Paris.

Date: 02 May 2022
Place: Inalco - Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, 65 Rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris
Info and registration: https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/288538023997

Join us for this in-person workshop co-organized by philosopher Kathinka Evers, and neuroscientists Viktor Jirsa and Alain Destexhe with the support of the European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience.

Detailled program:

13:00 – 13:15 Welcome & short introduction (Kathinka Evers & Maxime Guye)

13:15 – 14:15 Theme 1. Virtual Brains & Digital Twins in Neuroethics & Science

  • Moderator: Maxime Guye
  • 13:15 – 13:30 Kathinka Evers: Epistemic and Neuroethical Challenges of Virtual Brains & Digital Twins: Why Concepts Matter
  • 13:30 – 13:45 Viktor Jirsa: On the nature of a digital brain twin: how real is it?
  • 13:45 – 14:15 Panel discussion with Panel members: Wolf Singer, Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski, Viktor Jirsa, Kathinka Evers

14:15 – 15:15 Theme 2. Neuroethics & Responsible Innovation: Mapping the Issues

  • Moderator: Kathinka Evers
  • 14:15 – 14:30 Arleen Salles: Some ethical issues related to virtual brains and digital twins
  • 14:30 – 14:45 Manuel Guerrero: Mapping the Neuroethical Issues on Digital Twins in Alzheimer research and treatment
  • 14:45 – 15:15 Panel discussion with Panel members: Pawel Swieboda, Florent Gaillard, Manuel Guerrero, Arleen Salles

15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 – 16:45 Theme 3. Early career researchers' perspectives on questioning modelling practices: individual and structural perspectives

  • 15:45 – 16:00 Three short introductions
  1. Mallory Carlu: Why do we build models (and why we should (always) ask this question)?
  2. Damien Depannemaecker: How we build and validate models: on the loss of reality and its propagation
  3. Lionel Kusch: How do we use models, and who are "we"? Standardisation and popularity of models
  • 16:00 – 16:40 Questions to the audience (An interactive session during which randomly chosen attendees will address one of the proposed questions about their relationship with modelling.)

16:40 – 16:45 Synthesis

16:45 – 17:00 Thanks & wrapping up (Viktor Jirsa)

17:00 –18:00 Apéritif

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Zélie Tournoud
EITN Communication manager

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