Digital Minds Working Group: Collective Intelligence in the Latent Space

In the Digital Minds working group, we convene interdisciplinary researchers, scientists, academics, philosophers and curious minds to explore the “strange loop” of mind, brains and machines understanding and shaping one another. This group, an initiative of NODES, will gather in partnership with Foresight Institute's Berlin AI Node. Starting with this first session, we plan to meet at regular intervals at the Foresight Node in CIC. The DMWG will be a space for expanding our explorations of computational consciousness, machine epistemics and the underlying science and philosophy informing them. In the first meeting of the DMWG, we’ll explore self-organizing systems, collective intelligence and the infinite nature of shared knowledge from which intelligence emerges and continually defines itself. Program 18:00-18:30, Arrival, drinks & light bites 18:30, Intro & Presentations, followed by group discussionThe Forest and the Latent Space by philosopher, curator, fugitive planner and media theorist Dr. Erik Bordeleau Minor Index by creative technologist, researcher and curator Chris Dake-Outhet 20:00, Research review, followed by group discussionEgregore by Cem Dagdelen "Is shared memory a global workspace?" by Frank Peterlein and Lucas Nunn 21:00 - 22:00, Open discussion & mingling