[Koglist] Logic and Philosophy of Science, Klaus Kellerwessel

Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Múzeum krt. 4/i Room 224 _____________________________________________ P R O G R A M The seminar is held in hybrid format, in person (Múzeum krt. 4/i Room 224) and online. Zoom link <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84594385686?pwd=a7KPWoNLrPg11xNTi5Ug91YR5mHmmS.1> 17 April (Friday) 4:15 PM Room 224 + ONLINE Klaus Kellerwessel Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Logic Title: The Restless Mind – A Story of Cognitive Becoming _____________________________________________ ABSTRACT: What makes a system cognitive rather than merely adaptive? Where should we draw the boundary between simple responsiveness to environmental change and genuine cognition? Must cognition be tied to paradigmatically human capacities such as language, tool use, or self-awareness, or do even the simplest living systems instantiate minimal forms of it? The issue is not merely terminological: how cognition is defined fundamentally shapes our understanding of learning, evolutionary processes, animal minds, and humanity’s place within the natural order. Definitions that are overly restrictive risk obscuring non-human forms of intelligence, while overly permissive accounts threaten to broaden the concept to the point of explanatory uselessness. This presentation proposes a theoretically robust framework for minimal cognition grounded in experience-based predictive modelling and in two embodied expectations: an inductive expectation that the future will resemble the past, and a sceptical expectation that it will not do so perfectly. It further argues that these predictive dynamics are recapitulated across levels of biological organization, emerging both in evolutionary processes at the population level and in learning processes within individual organisms. _____________________________________________ The seminar is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and faculty members from all departments and institutes! Format: 60 minute lecture, coffee break, discussion. _____________________________________________ Organizers: Márton Gömöri and Zalán Molnár _____________________________________________ LPS - Logic and Philosophy of Science (Student and Faculty Seminar) Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy Eötvös University Budapest http://phil.elte.hu/lps