This session explores the nature of consciousness, including efforts to define and measure it. What systems have subjective experience? What do we mean when we refer to various types of consciousness? How simple, and how sophisticated, can consciousness in principle be? Can we define necessary conditions for a physical system to be conscious? Sufficient conditions?

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• Giulio Tononi on Consciousness:Neuroscientist Giulio Tononi discusses consciousness.
• "Integrated Information in Brains, Machines and Natural Language by Max Tegmark": Max Tegmark discusses his work on Integrated Information Theory and its application.
• "Panel: Can Physics Completely Model the Mind?": David Chalmers, with panelists Adrian Kent, Paavo Pylkkänen, and Adam Brown delving into the topic of physics and mind