Program

9:00AM - 9:20AM Check-in

Goal-directed behavior: overarching perspectives (chair: Richard Löffler)

9:20AM - 9:45AM Miguel Aguilera: introduction and overview of the “Goal-directed behavior and the origin of life” project

9:45AM - 10:30AM Xabier Barandiaran: What is goal directed behaviour? From biological autonomy to intentional action
 

10:30AM - 11:00AM Coffee break

11:00AM - 11:45AM Ben de Bari: Emergent normativity: origins of goal-directedness in far-from-equilibrium self-organization

11:45AM - 12:30PM Tomás Veloz: Modeling the origins and evolution of goal-directed systems: a reaction network approach

12:30PM - 1:30PM LUNCH

Droplets and active matter  (chair: Christian Euler)

1:30PM - 2:15PM Richard Löffler: Observation of complex behaviors in simple dissipative systems

2:15PM - 3:00PM Yuki Koyano: Self-propelled motion of camphor on a water surface interacting with system boundaries

3:00PM - 3:30PM  Coffee break

3:30PM - 4:15PM Ágota Tóth: Synchronization of hydrogel beads

4:15PM - 5:00PM Jitka Cejkova: Manipulating goal-directed behaviour in Dictyostelium discoideum with external signals

5:00PM - 7:00 PM  Free time, discussions, walks, etc.

7:00PM  Pintxos downtown (optional)

Viability (chair: Martin Biehl)

9:00AM - 9:45AM Nathaniel Virgo: Goal-directed behaviour and meaningfulness: towards a mathematical framework

9:45AM -  10:30AM Connor McShaffrey: Foundations of viability space

10:30AM - 11:00AM coffee break

11:00AM - 11:45AM Denizhan Pak: Metastable goals and their possible mechanisms

11:45AM - 12:30PM Yusuke Himeoka: A theoretical basis for cell deaths

12:30PM - 1:30PM    LUNCH

Cells and metabolism (chair: Omer Markovitch)

1:30PM - 2:15PM Daniele De Martino: The metabolic goals of cells: lesson from single cell flux analysis

2:15PM - 3:00PM Christian Euler: Thermodynamics constrains information flow in metabolism

3:00PM -  3:15PM coffee break

3:15PM - 4:00PM Eran Agmon: Emerging goals: A compositional framework for modeling biological agents

Discussion / collaborative time                                            

4:00PM - 5:30PM      Open discussion / collaborations

Goals and Agency (chair: Artemy Kolchinsky)

9:00AM - 9:45AM Manuel Baltieri: On the interplay between goals and action-orientedness

9:45AM - 10:30AM Fernando Rosas: Exploring the informational architecture of agency

10:30AM - 11:00AM coffee break

11:00AM - 11:45AM Hiroyuki Iizuka: The origin of intentions: from others to self through superposition

11:45AM - 12:30PM Simon Mcgregor:  The case for “pansolipsism”

12:30PM - 1:30PM LUNCH

Goals in computational systems (chair: Eran Agmon)

1:30PM - 2:15PM Hiroki Kojima: Persistence of complex patterns in Lenia and their physical interpretation

2:15PM - 3:00PM Kazuya Horibe: Acquisition of implicit world models via domain adaptation in homeostatic meta-reinforcement learning

3:00PM - 3:15PM coffee break

3:15PM - 4:00PM Paul Colognese: ​​Goal detection for AI catastrophe prevention

Wrap up                                                                                                                                          

4:00PM - 5:30PM Open discussion / collaborations