Timetable： 13:00 Hye Young Kim

（Husserl Archives - Pays Germaniques / Ecole Normale Superieure）

Knots and Consciousness: Knotted Models Applied to Uriah Kriegel’s “Consciousness, Permanent Self-Awareness, and Higher-Order Monitoring”





14:45 Katsunori Miyahara （University of Wollongong / University of Tokyo）

The integrated structure of consciousness





16:30 Takuya Niikawa （Institut Jean Nicod / Hokkaido University)

Can we explore the structure of consciousness scientifically?

This workshop aims to discuss the structure of consciousness from various perspectives. Hye Young Kim presents a mathematical model of the relation between observing self and observed self that holds in self-consciousness as an invariant structure. Katsunori Miyahara provides a phenomenological analysis of the sense of conscious unity/integrity. Takuya Niikawa analyzes the notion of the structure of consciousness and then discusses whether it can be explored in a neuroscientific framework.

Please feel free to take a look at the abstracts here.

Organizer: Takuya Niikawa Contact: niitaku11@gmail.com

This workshop is organized by

the Center for Human Nature, Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CHAIN) https://www.chain.hokudai.ac.jp/ and the Department of Philosophy and Ethics at Hokkaido University, and supported by JSPS Kakenhi Grant Number JP17K02153 and the Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy (CAEP).