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.

We managed to launch the AIMS project last week, just before concerns over COVID-19 shut down almost all face-to-face activities at UOW for the near future. Pamela Lyon and Carrie Figdor were fantastic keynotes to kick things off for the project, and we had a strong turn-out from UOW and USyd.       We all Read More…

Nick & Patrick will be presenting a paper on Multi-Scale Agency at next month’s International Conference on Embodied Cognitive Science at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. Tom Froese and colleagues have put together an awesome line-up of speakers and we’re super-excited to be involved and do our part for “the Copernican revolution in Read More…

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…