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The 1st International Online Conference of the Journal Philosophies

Intelligent Inquiry into Intelligence-Contributing to the 2025 IS4SI Summit

10–14 June 2025
Event's Timezone: Central European Summer Time
Abstract Submission Deadline
15 April 2025
Abstract Acceptance Notification
15 May 2025

Registration Deadline
5 June 2025

Diverse Conceptualizations of Intelligence, Diverse Methodologies of Intelligence Studies, The Unity in Diversity
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Call for Contributions

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We invite structured extended abstracts of presented works to be submitted by 15th March 2025. We welcome your submissions of extended abstracts prepared as explained below to: https://sciforum.net/user/submission/create/1216.

More details of the submission procedure can be found in the Instruction for Authors.

The extended abstracts of 300-500 words in English should include:
1. The title of the presentation.
2. Intended format of presentation (oral, poster, or either) – the number of accepted oral presentations will be limited, so the choice means a preference that may not be accepted.
3. Names and affiliations of all authors.
4. Name and email address of the contact author
5. A succinct description of the content of the work (as it is an extended abstract, it can include references)
6. Short explanation of the philosophical issues addressed in the work.

The conference has as its main objective to inquire/provide/develop/promote philosophical foundations for the interdisciplinary study of intelligence. This justifies the expectation that all submitted works have significant philosophical content even if this content is not the central subject of the study. For instance, an empirical study may have important consequences for the philosophical questions listed in the Announcement of the conference (or other relevant philosophical questions) justifying the claim of philosophical significance. However, these questions and consequences have to be directly identified in the last part of the abstract.

All accepted extended abstracts will be displayed on the website of the Conference. Proceeding papers (5-8 pages) developed from accepted extended abstracts can be published without APC but based on peer review in the Proceedings after the Conference. More extensive works without any limit of volume developed from these contributions may be published in Philosophies after the usual peer review carried out by the journal with a 20% discounted APC.

More details of publication can be found in the Publication Opportunities.

Event Chairs

1. Professor Emeritus, Akita International University, Akita, Japan,
2. Editor-in-Chief, the journal Philosophies of MDPI

1. Professor of Computer Science, Mälardalen University,
2. Professor of Interaction Design, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

Program Overview

10 Jun 2025
AI for Philosophy
11 Jun 2025
Intelligence Beyond Anthropomorphization: Intelligence and Life
12 Jun 2025
Critical Discussion of (Generative) AI
13 Jun 2025
Intelligence Beyond Anthropomorphization: Widening the Perspective
14 Jun 2025
From Human to Artificial Intelligence

IOCPh 2025-Program-Day 1

AI for Philosophy

Date: 10 June 2025 (Tuesday)
Time: 12:00 (CEST, Basel)| 06:00 (EDT, New York) | 18:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time (CEST) Speaker Title
12:00 - 12:30

Marcin J. Schroeder
&
Gordana Dodig Crnkovic

Welcome speech from the Conference Chairs
12:30-13:00 Zijian Ding
Contributed paper
Intelligence as Typological Cognition: Revisiting Jungian Functions for Human and Artificial Minds
13:00-14:00 Vincent C. Müller
Invited Speaker
AI Philosophy: A New Philosophical Method(Vincent C. Müller with Guido Löhr)
Break from 14:00-15:00

Date: 10 June 2025 (Tuesday)
Time: 15:00 (CEST, Basel)| 09:00 (EDT, New York) | 21:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time (CEST) Speaker Title
15:00-15:30 Marcin J. Schroeder
Contributed paper
Intelligence as the Capacity to Overcome Complexity of Information: Search for Unity in the Diverse Forms of Intelligence
15:30-16:00 Jaime F. Cárdenas-García
Contributed paper
Infoautopoiesis and Intelligence
16:00-17:00 Lorenzo Magnani
Invited Speaker
The Role of Eco-Cognitive Openness and Situatedness
Break from 17:00-18:00

Date: 10 June 2025 (Tuesday)
Time: 18:00 (CEST, Basel)| 12:00 (EDT, New York) | 00:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)(11 June)

Time (CEST) Speaker Title
18:00-19:00 Stephen Wolfram
Keynote Speaker
Computational Foundations of Minds and the Universe
19:00-20:00 Stephen Wolfram
Keynote Speaker

Gordana Dodig Crnkovic
Moderator
Keynote discussion
20:00-21:00

Confirmed Panelists:
Vincent C. Müller
Lorenzo Magnani

Panel 1: AI for Philosophy

IOCPh 2025-Program-Day 2

Intelligence Beyond Anthropomorphization: Intelligence and Life

Date: 11 June 2025 (Wednesday)
Time: 9:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time
(CEST)
Speaker Title
09:00-09:30 Gordana Dodig Crnkovic
Contributed paper
Evolution of Intelligence from Active Matter to Complex Intelligent Systems: An Agent-Based Approach
09:30-10:00 Paweł Polak
Contributed paper
Towards Beneficial AI: Biomimicry framework to design intelligence cooperating with biological entities
10:00-10:30 Nina Poth
Contributed paper
Intelligent behaviour as adaptive control guided by accurate prediction
10:30-11:00 Bartosz Michał Radomski
Contributed paper
Three Puzzles of Adaptivity: A Lens to Understand
Definitions of Life, Cognition, and Intelligence
11:00-12:00 Andrew Adamatzky
Invited Speaker
Origin of Intelligence

BREAK: 12:00-13:00 CEST

Date: 11 June 2025 (Wednesday)
Time: 13:00 (CEST, Basel)| 07:00 (EDT, New York) | 19:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time
(CEST)
Speaker Title
13:00-14:00 Michael Levin
Invited Speaker
Mind everywhere: recognizing and communicating with unconventional intelligence
14:00-15:00 Confirmed Panelists:
Michael Levin,
Andrew Adamatzky,
Lorenzo Magnani
Panel 2 Intelligence Beyond Anthropomorphization

15:00-15:30

Yukio Pegio Gunji
Contributed paper
Natural Born Intelligence that summons <emotions=politics>
15:30-16:00

Kyoko Nakamura
Contributed paper

Body as Anti-Anthropomorphic Landscape: Natural Born Intelligence in Bog Body
16:00-16:30

Soumya Banerjee
Contributed paper

Cosmicism and Artificial Intelligence: Beyond Human-Centric AI
16:30-17:00

Jevgenija Sivoronova
Contributed paper

The Cognition System Theory
17:00-18:00

1) From “no sense of place” to “no sense of the world”: Screen-centered senses and the problem of worldlessness - Zheng Liu
2) Under the reign of AI: a new 21st century taste dispute?
Reflections about Ian Hamilton Finlay' "Little Sparta" and John Goto
"High Summer". - Maria De Fátima Alexandrino Alves de Sá /
Monteiro Lambert
3) The dialectical philosophy of intelligent model and mathematical
physics simulation in the wave motion research - Peng Ren
4) When Planes Fly Better Than Birds: Should AIs Think Like
Humans? - Soumya Banerjee
5) Thinking as Decolonial Praxis - Colette Sybille Jung
6) Jean Piaget and Objectivity—Genetic Epistemology’s Place in
a View from Nowhere - Mark A Winstanley
7) Key Methodologies in Intelligence Studies: Techniques, Skills,
and Integration - Sunila Atul Patil / Amruta Nilesh Patil
8) The concept of Information and the Transmission of the
Experience of Beauty - Łukasz Mścisławski

FLASH POSTER PRESENTATION

IOCPh 2025-Program-Day 3

Critical Discussion of (Generative) AI

Date: 12 June 2025 (Thursday)
Time: 9:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time
(CEST)
Speaker Title
09:00-09:30

Marcus Abundis
Contributed paper

Intelligence and The “Hard Problem” of Consciousness – a short analysis
09:30-10:00 Saskia Janina Neumann
Contributed paper
How Brooks' behaviour based robots teach us a lesson about the definition of knowledge
10:00-10:30 Rafal Maciag
Contributed paper
Knowledge as an emergent effect of the complexity of large language models
10:30-11:00 Laida Arbizu Aguirre
Contributed paper
Epistemic Architectures of Intelligence: A Feminist Critique of Androcentric Reason
11:00-12:00 Oron Shagrir
Invited Speaker
The mathematical objection to artificial (machine) intelligence
Break from 12:00-13:00

Date: 12 June 2025 (Thursday)
Time: 13:00 (CEST, Basel) | 07:00 (EDT, New York) | 19:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time
(CEST)
Speaker Title
13:00-14:00 Hector Zenil
Invited Speaker
Why LLMs Can't Escape the Pattern-Matching Prison if They Don't Learn Recursive Compression
14:00-15:00 Jordi Vallverdú
Invited Speaker
Cognitive Romanticism: Humans Are Worse than Stochastic Parrots!
15:00-16:00 Confirmed Panelists:
Hector Zenil,
Selmer Bringsjord,
Jordi Vallverdú,
David Gamez
Panel 3 Critical Discussion of (Generative) AI
16:00-16:30 José Ferraz-Caetano
Contributed paper
Epistemic Automation: Using Machine Learning to Scale and Interpret Agent-Based Models of Scientific Inquiry
16:30-17:00 Szymon Miłkoś
Contributed paper
Proto-Intelligent Inquiry
17:00-17:30 Maria Regina Brioschi
Contributed paper
From GenAI to Human Beings and Back: Assessing Creative Intelligence
17:30-18:00 Johan Largo
Contributed paper
Rethinking intelligence: the problems of the representational view in the era of LLMs

IOCPh 2025-Program-Day 4

Intelligence Beyond Anthropomorphization:
Widening the Perspective

Date: 13 June 2025 (Friday)
Time: 9:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time
(CEST)
Speaker Title
09:00-09:30

Jian Wang
Contributed paper

A Framework for the Ethical Design and Accountability Attribution of Military Robot Systems
09:30-10:00 FEI SUN
Contributed paper
Axiology and the Evolution of Ethics in the Age of AI
10:00-10:30 Attila Egri-Nagy
Contributed paper
Thought Structures and their Morphisms
10:30-11:00 Anna Sarosiek
Contributed paper
A Cybernetic Approach to the Intentionality of Artificial Systems: A Regulatory Function Instead of a Representational One?
11:00-12:00 David Gamez
Invited Speaker
Intelligence and Consciousness in Natural and Artificial Systems
Break from 12:00-13:00

Date: 13 June 2025 (Friday)
Time: 13:00 (CEST, Basel) | 07:00 (EDT, New York) | 19:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time
(CEST)
Speaker Title
13:00-14:00
Marcin Milkowski
Invited Speaker
No Intelligence without Representation

14:00-15:00

Selmer Bringsjord
Invited Speaker
Variegated Common Sense Versus the Science of Universal Intelligence, When the Aliens Arrive
15:00-16:00

Confirmed Panelists:
Selmer Bringsjord,
Oron Shagrir,
David Gamez
Panel 4: Intelligence Beyond Anthropomorphization:
Widening the Perspective
16:00-16:30

Velina Slavova
Contributed paper

Transitive Self-Reflection – A Fundamental Criterion for Detecting Intelligence
16:30-17:00

Sheri Markose
Contributed paper
Gödelian Self-Referential Genomic Information Processing: Complex Self-Other Interactions, Social Cognition and Novelty Production
17:00-17:30

Jerry LR Chandler
Contributed paper
Biological Information Theory: Group Identity Nexuses of Formal Grammars, Numbers, and Propositions
17:30-18:00 Rao Mikkilineni
Contributed paper
Application of Burgin's General Theory of Information: Autopoietic and Meta-Cognitive Machines

IOCPh 2025-Program-Day 5

From Human to Artificial Intelligence

Date: 14 June 2025 (Saturday)
Time: 9:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time
(CEST)
Speaker Title
09:00-09:30 Daniel Boyd
Contributed paper
Comparison of the effect of language on high level information processes in humans and linguistically mature generative AI
09:30-10:00 Angelo Compierchio
Contributed paper
Free Intelligence in the Wild: on Human and other Non-human Natural and Artificial forms
10:00-11:00 Diane Proudfoot
Invited Speaker
Four myths about Turing’s view of intelligence and his test
11:00-12:00 Confirmed Panelists:
Diane Proudfoot,
Lorenzo Magnani
Panel 5: From Human to Artificial Intelligence
Break from 12:00-13:00

Date: 14 June 2025 (Saturday)
Time: 13:00 (CEST, Basel) | 07:00 (EDT, New York) | 19:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time
(CEST)
Speaker Title
13:00-13:30

Liang Wang
Contributed paper

Ethical Design of Social Robots Based on Confucian Etiquette Practices
13:30-14:00 Francisco Miguel Macías-Pozo
Contributed paper
Intelligence as a second-order virtue: changing attitudes for successful interactions in digital environments
14:00-14:30 Maria Olon Tsaroucha
Contributed paper
Beyond the Fifth Wall: Acting, Avatars, and the Quantum Self – Toward a Unified Framework for Human Intelligence and Identity
14:30-15:00 Alexander Bringsjord
Contributed paper
The Threat to Human Intelligence From AI of Today
15:30-16:00 Dorothea Olkowski
Contributed paper
You Think You Want a Revolution?
16:00-16:30

Marcin J. Schroeder
&
Gordana Dodig Crnkovic
Moderators

Closing plenary discussion

Keynote and Invited Speakers' Presentations


Dr. Stephen Wolfram
Founder & CEO of Wolfram Research,

Creator of Mathematica,
Wolfram|Alpha & Wolfram Language,
Author of A New Kind of Science and other books,

Originator of Wolfram Physics Project,
Website

Computational Foundations of Minds and the Universe

Wolfram's recent work on the foundations of physics, mathematics, biology and machine learning introduces a major new framework for thinking about fundamental philosophical questions.  This talk will provide a non-technical, philosophically oriented survey of these directions.
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/category/philosophy/

Prof. Dr. Andrew Adamatzky
University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

Origin of Intelligence

What is intelligence, and how deeply is it rooted in the fabric of life itself? In this talk, I explore the fundamental emergence of intelligent behaviours far beyond the animal kingdom. Beginning with spiking electrical activity observed in slime moulds, plants, and fungi, I will demonstrate how simple biological networks exhibit complex decision-making and adaptive behaviours — without neurons or brains. These organisms challenge our traditional notions of cognition, revealing that intelligence may not require a nervous system at all. I will also present recent work from our laboratory where we build and study proto-brains: experimental ensembles of proteinoid microspheres that spontaneously generate spiking patterns, coordinate actions, and process environmental information. By examining these synthetic and natural minimal systems, we gain insights into the deep origins of intelligence, suggesting that cognition may emerge wherever matter organises to sense, decide, and act upon the world.

Prof. Dr. Selmer Bringsjord
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rensselaer Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning Laboratory, New York, USA

Variegated Common Sense Versus the Science of Universal Intelligence, When the Aliens Arrive

The abstract is available at: https://kryten.mm.rpi.edu/SBringsjordWhenTheAliensArrive0513250054.pdf

Dr. David Gamez
Department of Computer Science at Middlesex University, London, UK.

Intelligence and Consciousness in Natural and Artificial Systems

Considerable progress has been made with the development of systems that can drive cars, play games, predict protein folding and generate natural language. These systems are described as intelligent and there has been a great deal of talk about the rapid increase in artificial intelligence and its potential dangers. However, our theoretical understanding of intelligence and ability to measure it lag far behind our capacity for building systems that mimic intelligent human behaviour. There is no commonly agreed definition of the intelligence that AI systems are said to possess, nor has anyone developed a practical measure that would enable us to compare the intelligence of humans, animals and AIs on a single scale. This talk addresses these problems by clarifying the nature of intelligence and outlining a new algorithm for measuring intelligence that can be applied to any system.

The first part of the talk starts with a discussion of previous definitions of intelligence. It then argues for a close link between prediction and intelligence and addresses two misconceptions about intelligence. The first is that people often think that humans have a general form of intelligence that has the same level in all environments. This belief motivates the idea that we could develop machines with artificial general intelligence (AGI). However, human intelligence often fails when it is confronted with environments that are significantly different from the natural world, such as high-dimensional numerical spaces. A second issue is that people naively assume that they directly apply their intelligence to the physical world. However, we can only be intelligent about things that are revealed to us through our senses, and people, animals and artificial systems have very different sensory experiences. So, it is much more accurate to say that agents apply their intelligence to their perceived environment, or umwelt.

The second part of the talk explores the measurement of intelligence. Previous work in this area includes IQ, g and universal measures, such as compression tests and algorithms based on goals and rewards. To address the limitations of previous measures, I have developed a new algorithm for measuring predictive intelligence that is based on an agent’s internal state transitions. Experiments have been done to test this algorithm, and it has many potential applications in AI safety and the comparative study of intelligence.

The talk concludes with some reflections on the relationships between intelligence and consciousness. It is commonly assumed that there is a close relationship between intelligence and consciousness in biological systems, However, this correlation might not exist in artificial systems, who could be highly intelligent with low levels of consciousness, or highly conscious with low levels of intelligence. In the future we might be able to use algorithmic measures of consciousness, such as information integration theory (IIT), and universal measures of intelligence to systematically study the relationships between intelligence and consciousness in natural and artificial systems.

Keywords: Intelligence and Consciousness in Natural and Artificial Systems

Prof. Dr. Michael Levin
Levin Lab, School of Arts and Sciences. Department of Biology, Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA

Mind everywhere: recognizing and communicating with unconventional intelligence

In this talk I will describe my framework for an engineering approach to recognizing, communicating with, and ethically relating to unconventional intelligences. I will begin with some conceptual clarification of intelligence and embodiment. I will then describe a number of surprising examples of intelligence, using the collective intelligence of cells navigating anatomical space as a model system, and show data on our approach to use the bioelectric interface as a means of communicating with the agential material of life. I will show how re-setting the memories, goals, and cognitive light cone of cell groups drives applications in birth defects, regenerative medicine, cancer, and bioengineering. I will describe our efforts to develop tools to expand our native mind-blindness to large regions of the cognitive spectrum, including the emergent cognition of very minimal models (both living and computational) whose capabilities are not explained by evolutionary history. I will end with some speculative implications of these ideas for the future of science and philosophy of mind.

Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Magnani
Professor, Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy (Ret.).

The Role of Eco-Cognitive Openness and Situatedness

I will use my studies on abductive intelligence in an eco-cognitive framework to demonstrate the concept of “locked and unlocked strategies” in deep learning systems, indicating different inference routines for creative results. Higher forms of creative abductive intelligence are involved in unlocked human cognition, whereas locked abductive strategies are characterized by weak hypothetical creative intelligence because of the absence of what I refer to as eco-cognitive openness and situatedness. The fundamental nature of the human brain as an open system that is continuously coupled with the environment - a so-called “open” or dissipative system - is the physical basis for this special type of “openness”. The brain's activity is the continuous attempt to achieve equilibrium with its environment, and this interaction can never be turned off without seriously harming the brain. It is impossible to imagine the brain lacking its physical essence, which is its openness. In the brain, ordering is the direct result of an “internal” open dynamical process of the system rather than being generated from the outside, as I have described in my latest book Eco-Cognitive Computationalism (2022), “computational domestication of ignorant entities”.

Assoc. Prof. Marcin Milkowski
Associate professor in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

No Intelligence without Representation

This talk focuses on the indispensable role of representation in constituting intelligence. Central to the inquiry into intelligence is understanding the relationship between mind, world, and action. I argue, first, that even basic embodied intelligence, often cited as evidence against representation, relies fundamentally on contentful states. Drawing on analyses of intentionality and procedural memory, skills are shown to possess directive content (a world-to-mind direction of fit) defined by satisfaction conditions. This representational layer is crucial for explaining the normativity, learning, and potential failures (e.g., apraxia) inherent in skilled action. Second, I argue that directive content alone is insufficient. Genuine intelligence requires the capacity for descriptive representation—states with a mind-to-world direction of fit, capable of being true or false in a way that corresponds to reality. This commitment to representational realism and truth is not merely a feature of high-level cognition but a foundational requirement for systems that can learn about, understand, and flexibly adapt to the complexities of the world beyond immediate interaction loops. Intelligence, therefore, is inextricably linked to the dual representational capacities to both shape the world according to goals and accurately reflect its state.

Prof. Dr. Vincent C. Müller
A. v. Humboldt Professor, Philosophy & Ethics of AI, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

AI Philosophy: A New Philosophical Method (Vincent C. Müller with Guido Löhr)

On the background of the general problem of philosophical methodology, we identify a new tool for the philosophical toolbox: AI. We propose that not only can AI learn from philosophy, but philosophy can learn from AI, too: It is both ways. This applies particularly to conceptual analysis, which can be advanced by asking what would be required for an AI system to fall under the concept we are discussing. This method it avoids anthropocentrism and gives us a new way of testing our philosophical theories. Given the wide range of features we can consider for AI systems, this method allows us to cover a wide range of philosophical issues, especially in the philosophy of mind, language, epistemology, and ethics. In the first section, we present two salient examples of this new method (consciousness and free will) and in the second section, we analyse what the method is. Finally, we defend this new method against anticipated objections.

Prof. Dr. Diane Proudfoot
Professor of Philosophy, University of Canterbury - TE WHARE WĀNANGA O WAITAHA, New Zealand.

Four myths about Turing’s view of intelligence and his test

In current inquiry into intelligence, Turing’s work is regarded as foundational. Yet misunderstandings of his view of (the concept of) intelligence and his famous test of intelligence in machines are widespread. I shall argue that four standard interpretations of Turing and his imitation game are mistaken. First, that Turing was (in an influential sense) a behaviourist about the mind. Second, that his approach to the mind was (again in an influential sense) computationalist. Third, that Turing’s philosophy of mind was radically different from that of his contemporary, Wittgenstein, who in turn was a severe critic of Turing. And last, that Turing’s test has been passed by recent GPT models—with the result that we need a new test of intelligence in machines.


Prof. Dr. Oron Shagrir
Vice-President for International Affairs; Schulman Chair in of Philosophy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

The mathematical objection to artificial (machine) intelligence

Turing develops the idea of machine intelligence in a series of lectures and papers between 1947 and 1952. In some of them he addresses the mathematical objection (his term) whose gist is the claim that humans can assert some mathematical truths that exceed the abilities of computing machines. We first ask why Turing took so seriously the mathematical objection. After all, even if some humans surpass machines in their mathematical abilities, this by itself does not undermine the project of machine intelligence. Our answer is that the mathematical objection raises a dilemma with respect to Turing’s core claims about machine intelligence and forces him to relinquish at least one of them. We then clarify Turing’s reply to the mathematical objection. Based on the textual evidence, we argue that, according to Turing, the machine that plays against the human in the Turing test is not a static machine but an enhanced machine.

Keywords: The mathematical objection to artificial (machine) intelligence

Prof. Dr. Jordi Vallverdú
Professor & ICREA Acadèmia researcher, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Cognitive Romanticism: Humans Are Worse than Stochastic Parrots!

Most Humans Are Stochastic Parrots, and LLMs Reveal Our Intellectual Mediocrity. While critics often dismiss large language models (LLMs) as mere "stochastic parrots," I argue that this accusation misunderstands both machine intelligence and, more importantly, human cognition itself. Most human thought is not creative, critical, or unpredictable; it is rote, imitative, and driven by deeply ingrained social, religious, and cognitive biases. The dominance of myth, ideology, and irrational belief systems across cultures reveals that humans themselves function largely as stochastic parrots — endlessly repeating patterns they neither question nor understand. Rather than exposing the limitations of artificial intelligence, LLMs expose the uncomfortable truth about human intellectual mediocrity. In this talk, I will attack the myth of human cognitive exceptionalism, dismantle the romantic notions attached to human "creativity" and "autonomy," and propose a radical redefinition of intelligence beyond humanist illusions. Intelligence, whether in biological or artificial systems, must be seen not as the privilege of a superior species, but as an emergent property of patterned interaction with environments — often stochastic, occasionally innovative, but rarely transcendental.

Keywords: Cognitive Romanticism: Humans Are Worse than Stochastic Parrots!

Dr. Hector Zenil
Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer, School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine & King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence, King’s College London, UK.

Why LLMs Can't Escape the Pattern-Matching Prison if They Don't Learn Recursive Compression

In this talk we will introduce and discuss SuperARC, a new proposed open-ended test based on algorithmic probability to critically evaluate claims of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Artificial Superintelligence (ASI), challenging standard metrics grounded in statistical compression and human-centric tests. By leveraging Kolmogorov complexity rather than Shannon entropy, the test measures fundamental aspects of intelligence, such as synthesis, abstraction, and planning or prediction. Comparing state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) against a hybrid neurosymbolic approach, we identify inherent limitations in LLMs, highlighting their incremental and fragile performance, and their optimisation primarily for human-language imitation rather than genuine model convergence. These results prompt philosophical reconsideration of how intelligence—both artificial and natural—is conceptualised and assessed.

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Copyright
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.

Publication Opportunities

Philosophies Journal Publication
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the conference's Special Issue, published in Philosophies (ISSN 2409-9287, Impact Factor 0.6), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. Please note that the discount can solely be utilized in conjunction with the IOAP discount; no additional discounts are applicable. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines. Use the Microsoft Word template or LaTeX template to prepare your manuscript.

Proceeding Paper Publication
If you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (no more than eight pages), please submit it to Proceedings journal (ISSN 2504-3900) after the conference. Publication of the proceedings will be free of charge.
Authors are asked to disclose that it is a proceeding paper of the IOCPh 2025 conference paper in their cover letter. Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines.

Proceedings submission deadline: 31 July 2025.

Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must be formatted as follows:
Title
Full author names
Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
Abstract
Keywords
Introduction
Methods
Results and Discussion
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References.

Event Awards

The Awards
Best Oral Presentation Award

Number of Awards Available: 3

The Best Oral Presentation Award is given to the paper judged to make the most significant oral contribution to the conference.

There will be three winners selected for the Best Oral Presentation Award. The winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each.

Best Poster Award

Number of Awards Available: 2

The Best Poster Award is given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.

There will be two winners selected for the Best Poster Award. Each winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF.

Distinguished Female Author Presentation Award 2025

Number of Awards Available: 1

Intelligence studies and philosophy have long been shaped by predominantly male voices. Given the substantial role of diverse approaches brought by female authors, we want to promote their vital contributions in broadening perspectives and enriching the discourse.

To recognize and encourage this impactful work, we are pleased to announce the Distinguished Female Author Presentation Award 2025, celebrating outstanding contributions shared through oral presentations and posters by female scholars.

There will be one winner selected for this award. The winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF.

To be considered for this award, please select the "Distinguished Female Author Presentation Award 2025 Application" option during the registration process. Please carefully review the eligibility criteria and upload the required documents as specified. Please note that eligibility for the award is contingent upon acceptance of the abstract by IOCPh 2025.

We encourage all eligible female authors to apply for this prestigious award!

Sponsors and Partners

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Ms. Riley Liu
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Email: iocph2025@mdpi.com

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