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Florida Atlantic’s Center for the Future Mind hosted the second annual Mindfest conference in February 2024. The theme for ��Mindfest 2024 was Digital Physics, Chatbot Epistemology, and the Future of AGI. ��

Keynote speakers included Stuart Hameroff, co-founder, director, Center for Consciousness Studies and Professor Emeritus, Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology, University of Arizona; Sara Imari Walker, theoretical physicist and Deputy Director of the Beyond Center, Arizona State University; Scott Aaronson, OpenAI/David J. Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin; Hartmut Neven, vice president of engineering at Google and Founder and Head of Google’s Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab; Thomas Pike, dean, Oettinger School of Science and Technology, National Intelligence University (NIU), Washington, D.C.; and Michael Patrick Lynch, Provost Professor of the Humanities and Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy; and David Chalmers, New York University.

The conference is organized by Susan Schneider, the William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professor at ����ý, former NASA chair and Distinguished Scholar at the Library of Congress. The Center is based within ����ý’s Brain Institute, as well as the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at ����ý.

Conference sessions included:

• Is Your Brain a Quantum Orchestra? The ‘Orch OR’ Theory of Consciousness;
• Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe;
• The Problem of Human Specialness in the Age of AI;
• Democratic AI: The Benefits and Dangers of the Complex System Driving AI; and
• Are we in a computer simulation, and if so, why would it matter?

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