AIMS 2020 Finale

We’re gearing up for our final event of 2020, and we’ve got a fantastic line-up of speakers: Pamela Lyon, Michael Levin, Matthew Egbert, Matthew Sims, Randall Beer and Ximena Nelson. We’ll run the gamut of agency & intelligence from simple simulations to single cells to saltating spiders (!) Please join us! More information below.

AIMS 3: Learning and Preferences – August 27th

The Agency and Intelligence on Multiple Scales (AIMS) project at the University of Wollongong is hosting a virtual workshop via Zoom from 11am-1pm (AEST) on Thursday, August 27th, with talks from David Spurrett and Yee Lian Chew. Attendance is free and open to all. AIMS Workshop: Learning and Preferences Thursday, August 27th, 2020 11am-1pm AEST Virtual Conference via Zoom link Read More…

Lab News: May & June

With everything that has been going on in the world, we’ve fallen pretty far behind in posting the latest news from the lab. We had two students, Anco Peeters and Nick Brancazio, receive their PhDs in late May. Anco has moved to Germany, where he is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Ruhr-University Bochum. Read More…

Multi-Scale Agency project starts today!

Today is Day 1 of our new “Intelligent Agency on Multiple Scales” project! This is funded under the Templeton World Charity Foundation’s Diverse Intelligences scheme, and the project will examine ways in which concepts of agency depend on scale. For the next two years, we’ll be examining the different roles that agency plays in explaining Read More…

Agency and Intelligence on Multiple Scales (AIMS) Project: Inaugural Research Workshop

We are excited to announce the Agency and Intelligence on Multiple Scales (AIMS) project, led by Patrick McGivern at the University of Wollongong. This is a two-year project investigating concepts of agency and intelligent action across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, from sub-cellular and single-cellular processes to the actions of large-scale collectives.  AIMS is Read More…

Active materials: minimal models of cognition?

New paper by Patrick McGivern: “Active materials: minimal models of cognition?” This is the final advance publication from the upcoming special issue of Adaptive Behavior, Approaching Minimal Cognition, edited by Nick Brancazio, Miguel Segundo-Ortin, and Patrick McGivern. Abstract: Work on minimal cognition raises a variety of questions concerning the boundaries of cognition. Many discussions of minimal Read More…