- Venue: ALIFE 2023, Sapporo, Japan - Date: July 25th, 2023 - Title: Cognitive feelings: Towards multi-disciplinary approaches for realizing artificial systems with cognitive capacities - Website: https://sites.google.com/view/cogfeel-alife-2023/ - Workshop organizers: - Jie Mei, International Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of Tokyo - Hiroki Kojima, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry and The University of Tokyo - Yuichi Yamashita, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry - Yukie Nagai, International Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of Tokyo *Apologies for cross-posting* Dear colleagues, In recent years, an increasing number of cross-disciplinary approaches have been proposed to deepen our understanding of living systems and their interactive, evolutionary, and adaptive aspects. However, we have not fully achieved the emergence of intelligence and mind in artificial systems. To facilitate discussions on how cognitive capacities of artificial living systems could be improved and potentially propose a framework for exploring the origin, emergence and evolution of perception and emotions, we are organizing a workshop (CogFeel @ ALIFE 2023: https://sites.google.com/view/cogfeel-alife-2023) in conjunction with the 2023 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2023). We reinforce the role of cognitive feelings (i.e., feelings about one’s mental processes, encompassing senses of knowing, confidence, reality, and fluency, etc.) as an integrated component contributing to developmental individuality and diversity. We also recognize the difficulty in implementing (subjective) feelings in artificial systems which requires the differentiation whether these systems possess feelings or just behave as so. For a comprehensive perspective on how individual- and population-level diversity in cognitive and behavioral capacities emerges, in this workshop, we encourage discussions on methods and findings in disciplines including but not limited to: - Robotics, - Computational and behavioral neuroscience, - Psychology, - Virtual/augmented reality, and - Artificial intelligence, etc. We welcome submissions on topics within the fields of (neuro)robotics, computational and behavioral neuroscience, psychology, virtual/augmented reality, and artificial intelligence. We also encourage contributions from other relevant disciplines. Submissions should be in the form of extended abstracts (maximum 2 pages) or research articles (maximum 8 pages). We are planning to organize a special issue in partnership with a top academic journal where extended versions of selected contributions will be published. Deadline: May 26, 2023. Please submit your contribution to cogfeelalife2023@gmail.com. Regards, Jie Mei