A MAP FOR THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Building a topology
of intelligence

A cross-disciplinary meeting focusing on the notion of intelligence
in its diverse forms: biological, human and artificial.

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01
Connecting experts

from different
scientific fields

02
deepening the connection

between human, animal
and artificial cognition

03
creating a map

of the different definitions
of intelligence

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posing questions

to guide
future research

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diverse intelligence
iniTiative

A project by Templeton World Charity Foundation promoting a forward-looking and wide-ranging
research on the different notions of intelligence.

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SCIENTISTS AND PHILOSOPHERS FROM DIFFERENT FIELDS AND CULTURES

PROJECT DIRECTORS AND organizING COMMITTEE

Marta Bertolaso

Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

(Project director) Full Professor of Philosophy of Science and Human Development at the Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome (Italy). Her current work focuses on complex adaptive dynamics in living systems, and on a new epistemic understanding of human–AI interactions.

Max Bonilla

Expanded Reason Institute
University Francisco de Vitoria

(Project director) International Director of the Expanded Reason Institute at the University Francisco de Vitoria in Madrid (Spain) and co-director of several joint ventures with the Vatican Foundation Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI. He previously served as Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Franciscan University of Steubenville.

Laura Corti

Science and Technology
for Humans and the Environment

(Organizing committee) Science and Technology for Humans and the Environment PhD student at the Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome (Italy). Her work focuses on philosophy of technology, postphenomenology, epistemic complexity, AI ethics and philosophy of science.

Nicola Di Stefano

Institute of Cognitive Sciences
and Technologies (ISTC)

(Organizing committee) PhD and former grant-holder at the Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome (Italy), focusing on aesthetics of music and the relationship between aesthetics and neuroscience. Currently researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR).

ABOUT US

Diverse Intelligences: Building A Topology Of Different Notions Of Intelligence is a joint venture between the Expanded Reason Institute of the University Francisco de Vitoria and the Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, which through funding by the Templeton World Charity Foundation are working together to bring scholars from across multiple disciplines to inquire about the nature of intelligence in its various manifestations in the universe.

Through a one-day conference we will examine the general division of intelligence into biological, human and artificial, in a way that emphasizes its tripartition into generic research fields, such as biology/patterns of behaviors, psychology/philosophy, and AI, respectively.

The end goal of the conference is to set the frame for a “topology” of intelligences through which relationships among the various types of intelligences can be elucidated, and which can serve as an intellectual  tool for present and future research on the nature and connections among diverse intelligences.