April 21 to 27, 2004 on the Island of Elba

Organizer: Britta Glatzeder

The eighth workshop focused on the task of analyzing the constituents of complex thinking processes. The working hypothesis was that (1) complex thinking operations are composed of a small number of under-lying basic operations; and that (2) human thinking shows a modular architecture.

• Britta Glatzeder, philosophy Parmenides Cente, Germany
• Chris Langton, artificial life, complexity theory, Parmenides Center, US
• Tara Lemmey, technology innovation, LENS Institute, San Francisco, US
• Riccardo Manzotti, robotics, philosophy, University of Genova, Italy
• Albrecht von Müller, philosophy, Parmenides Center, Germany
• Helge Ritter, neuroinformatics, University of Bielefeld, Germany
• Olaf Sporns, cognitive psychology, Indiana University, US
• Marc Toussaint, neuroinformatics, evolutionary computation, Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation University of Edinburgh, UK

• A Theory of the Evolution of Genetic Representations (Marc Toussaint)
• Structure Formation, Compression and Patter Recognition (Helge Ritter)
• The WHAT Problem – Ontogeny and Ontology (Riccardo Manzotti)
• How You Think in a Network (Tara Lemmey)
• Towards a Taxonomy of Thinking (Chris Langton)
• Complexity Theory (Chris Langton)
• On a Modular Architecture of Thinking Operations (Albrecht von Müller)
• Networks, Robots, and Thinking (Olaf Sporns)