Virtual Brains & Digital Twins: Tentative Roadmap|Neuroethical perspectives
Date and time
Location
Inalco - Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales
65 Rue des Grands Moulins
75013 Paris
France
An in-person neuroethics workshop in Paris.
About this event
Join us for this in-person workshop in Paris co-organized by philosopher Kathinka Evers, and neuroscientists Viktor Jirsa and Alain Destexhe with the support of the European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience.
Detailled program:
13:00 – 13:15 Welcome & short introduction (Kathinka Evers & Maxime Guye)
13:15 – 14:15 Theme 1. Virtual Brains & Digital Twins in Neuroethics & Science
- Moderator: Maxime Guye
- 13:15 – 13:30 Kathinka Evers: Epistemic and Neuroethical Challenges of Virtual Brains & Digital Twins: Why Concepts Matter
- 13:30 – 13:45 Viktor Jirsa: On the nature of a digital brain twin: how real is it?
- 13:45 – 14:15 Panel discussion with Panel members: Jean-Pierre Changeux, Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski, Viktor Jirsa, Kathinka Evers
14:15 – 15:15 Theme 2. Neuroethics & Responsible Innovation: Mapping the Issues
- Moderator: Kathinka Evers
- 14:15 – 14:30 Arleen Salles: Some ethical issues related to virtual brains and digital twins
- 14:30 – 14:45 Manuel Guerrero: Mapping the Neuroethical Issues on Digital Twins in Alzheimer research and treatment
- 14:45 – 15:15 Panel discussion with Panel members: Pawel Swieboda, Florent Gaillard, Manuel Guerrero, Arleen Salles
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 16:45 Theme 3. Early career researchers' perspectives on questioning modelling practices: individual and structural perspectives
- 15:45 – 16:00 Three short introductions
- Mallory Carlu: Why do we build models (and why we should (always) ask this question)?
- Damien Depannemaecker: How we build and validate models: on the loss of reality and its propagation
- Lionel Kusch: How do we use models, and who are "we"? Standardisation and popularity of models
- 16:00 – 16:40 Questions to the audience (An interactive session during which randomly chosen attendees will address one of the proposed questions about their relationship with modelling.)
16:40 – 16:45 Synthesis
16:45 – 17:00 Thanks & wrapping up (Viktor Jirsa)
17:00 –18:00 Apéritif
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