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Best, Gary R CALL FOR PAPERS OCTOBER 30 – NOVEMBER 01 UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO (USP), Brazil XI INTERNATIONAL BRAZILIAN MEETING ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE (EBICC) COMPLEXITY, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND AUTONOMY: A POSSIBLE UNITY? About EBICC 2017 The EBICC has taken place in Brazil since 1995, organized by the Brazilian Society of Cognitive Science (SBCC). The conference is inter/transdisciplinary in nature, and this 11th edition will congregate researchers students, and scholars from different areas and fields related to Cognitive Science, such as Arts, Biology, Computation, Communication, Education, Engineering, Information Theory, Linguistics, Philosophy, Physics, and Semiotics, to debate the interrelationship among consciousness, complexity, and autonomy. Main themes of EBICC 2017: • Complexity and consciousness: an interdisciplinary horizon in the study of autonomous action; • Autonomy, complexity, and consciousness in the post-human; • Autonomy, complexity, and consciousness in the information age; • Autonomy, complexity, and artificial agency; • Autonomy, complexity, and consciousness: inter-, multi-, and transdisciplinary dialogues; • Autonomy, information technology, and complexity: advances in Cognitive Science. Some of the sub-themes targeted by EBICC 2017: • Information, mind, and consciousness; • Information, structure, and complexity; • Logic, information, and autonomous action; • Semiotics, meaning, and consciousness; • Language, communication, and learning in complex systems; • Emotion, cognition, and autonomous action; • Perception, awareness, and consciousness; • Art, esthetic experience, and consciousness; • Evolution of the concepts of complexity, autonomy, and consciousness; • Intelligence augmentation, autonomy, and complexity; • Communication, technology, and autonomous action; • Agents and cognitive games and their educational and sociocultural roles; • Virtual reality, augmented reality, and autonomy; • Self-organization, complexity, and autonomy; • Technology, interaction and social complexity; • Big data, complexity, and autonomy. Contributions: Full papers – For reporting original works of scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students; from 7 to 10 pages of text, including abstract, references, and information about the authors, and up to two extra pages of figures. Communications – For reporting findings and developments of ongoing research; from 4 to 5 pages of text, including abstract, figures, references, and information about the authors. Posters – For reporting current works of researchers, students (undergraduate or graduate). The poster proposal must be submitted in the form of a one-page abstract with references and indication of the sponsoring institution and advisor. Accepted posters should be printed and assembled by the authors. Ethical criteria for acceptance: Works should not describe or use invasive experiments involving humans or non-human animals. The SBCC sustains the ethical principle, following the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness (2012), which holds that if non-human animals can be considered conscious, then the experimental restrictions applied should be the same as those imposed for experiments involving humans. Submissions: The official languages of EBICC 2017 are English, and Portuguese for regular work submissions and presentations. Submission may be made via the link to the Easy Chair website for EBICC 2017 (http://ebicc.sbcc.org.br). Deadlines for authors: • Abstract submission deadline: July 15th • Paper submission deadline: July 30th Other important dates: • Submission opens: April 1st • Registration opens: April 1st • Author notification: August 30th Publication: Accepted and presented papers and poster abstracts will be published in the online event annals by a local publisher, with ISSN and DOI. The best papers selected by the scientific committee will be further published in extended versions as chapters of a book organized and edited by SBCC. Questions about this Call for Papers: send email [email protected] Call for submission of artistic and cultural proposals for EBICC 2017 The Cultural Committee of XI International Brazilian Meeting on Cognitive Science (EBICC 2017) also opens call for submissions of artistic and cultural proposals for presentation during the event. Proposals should point out their direct or indirect relation to the themes and subthemes of the meeting with a privileged focus - but not unique - in the post-human context brought by the transformations that the new cognitive technologies enable and that are experienced by Art. Questions about this special call for submission and proposals must be send directly to Ariane Porto Rimoli, chair of the Cultural Committee: [email protected] Program Committee • Angelo Loula (UEFS) • Ariane Porto (Unicamp) • Artur Matuck (USP) • Cristina Mungioli (USP) • João Eduardo Kogler Junior (USP) • João Fernando Marar (Unesp) • Marcos Antonio Alves (UNESP) • Marcos Buckeridge (USP) • Marcos Mucheroni (USP) • Massimo Di Felice (USP) • Maria Eunice Quilici Gonzalez (UNESP) • Mariana Claudia Broens (UNESP) • Osvaldo Frota Pessoa Junior (USP) • Ramon Capelle (Unilab) • Ricardo Ribeiro Gudwin (Unicamp) • Sebastiâo Squirra (Methodist University fo São Paulo) • Silvia Laurentiz (USP) • Vinicius Romanini (USP) • Maria Cristina Mungioli (USP) Organizing committee • Ariane Porto (Unicamp) • Artur Matuck (USP) • João Antônio de Moraes (CLE-Unicamp) • Marcos Buckeridge (USP) • Marcos Mucheroni (USP) • Massimo Di Felice (USP) • Maria Cristina Mungioli (USP) • Ramon Capelle (Unilab) • Sebastião Squirra (Methodist University of São Paulo) • Silvia Laurentiz (USP) [image: Gary Richmond] *Gary Richmond* *Philosophy and Critical Thinking* *Communication Studies* *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* *C 745* *718 482-5690*
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