Mind, AI & Consciousness

The questions nobody else is asking.

Led by Loki Jorgenson

Why this day, this year

What is intelligence? What is consciousness? What does it mean that machines can now seem to reason?

MAC Day brings philosophers, neuroscientists, AI researchers, and curious minds together for the conversations that matter most — the ones most AI conferences won't touch.

MAC Day — Mind, AI, and Consciousness — is the day everyone warned us we'd never fill. Turns out we were wrong.

Panpsychism. Integrated Information Theory. Quantum cognition. Embodied cognition. AI moral status. The questions that mainstream AI conferences won't touch. Loki Jorgenson has been running the monthly MAC gatherings for years, and this is the public day.

Morning opens with why consciousness matters in the AI era. Afternoon splits into workshops and a panel on which frameworks actually deserve serious treatment. Evening closes with DEFRAG Creative AI #2.

There is a latent need. I need to understand. I need to be part of and have a voice in what's happening to us.
— Loki Jorgenson

Session flow

Thursday · Oct 29

10:00am	Opening: Why consciousness matters in the AI era
11:00am	Keynote: Announced closer to the festival
1:30pm	Workshop: Defining consciousness operationally
3:00pm	Panel: IIT vs Panpsychism vs Embodied
4:30pm	Breakout: What does this mean for building AI?
7:00pm	Evening: DEFRAG Creative AI #2

Session titles may shift as speakers are confirmed. Final program published September.

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