Workshop on "Virtual Brains & Digital Twins" - 02 May 2022 in Paris
** *"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 /
*European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience (EITN)*
UMR 9197 – *NeuroPSI*(Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay)
CNRS – Université Paris-Saclay
Centre CEA Paris-Saclay
Bâtiment 151
91400 Saclay
participants (1)
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Zélie Tournoud