Consciousness may arise from, or be structured by, our ability to access and reason about internal representations through the internal use of language. The half-day symposium will address the question: "Is consciousness a story we tell ourselves?" by examining the relationship between consciousness, inner speech in humans and chain-of-thought reasoning in machines. 

Along with two panel discussion we will have a set of short contributed oral presentations; the deadline for these is 31 March with all decisions made by 15 April.

See:

https://astorywetell.github.io/

for details.

We are still finalizing the panels for the panel discussions are there are still a couple of slots available if anyone would like to contact directly.

All the best

Con