Presentation given at the After ‘Consciousness’ workshop, Berggruen Institute, University of Hong Kong, 27–28 January 2026. A summary of the talk is available on the Berggruen Institute website.

Presentation given at the Online Workshop: Inner Speech and Conscious Thinking, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia, 20 March 2026.

Presentation given at the 2nd  Portuguese Symposium on Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence, Alcochete, 26-27 September 2024.

Presentation given at the GENAI workshop on Large Language Models, Artificial Others and Cognitive Flourishing, NOVA Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA), Lisbon, 24 September 2024.

This is an expanded presentation of the argument that LLMs are game-playing systems, given at the International Workshop on Generative AI (GENAI) and the Philosophy of Mind, Lisbon, Portugal, 8-9 July 2024.

This is the first presentation of Reactivity Schema Theory, which I gave at the ‘Uncovering the Magic of Consciousness’ conference held by the International Center for Consciousness Studies (ICCS) at Santa Maria della Scala Museum, Siena, Italy, from 27-29 June 2024.

Presented online at the “Uncovering the Magic of Consciousness” conference of the International Center for Consciousness Studies (ICCS),  Santa Maria della Scala Museum, Siena, Italy, from 27-29 June 2024.

Workshop on large language models, UC Riverside Philosophy Department​,
10-11 May 2023​

To Be or Not To Be Conscious: Phenomenal Realism and Illusionism workshop, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, 29-30 September 2022.

Plenary session, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, University of Hertfordshire. Joint presentation with Yujin Nagasawa. My talk starts at 26:23.

Metaphysics and Introspection workshop, CEU, Vienna, 13-14 May 2022.

TSC 2020 Tucson Online, plenary session on Reality / Illusion with Donald Hoffman, 15 September 2020. My presentation begins at 37:20.

My contribution to an online symposium on Lisa Bortolotti’s book The Epistemic Innocence of Irrational Beliefs, June 2020.

Workshop: The Role and Reality of Consciousness, University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece, 12 May 2019.

Co-presentation with Daniel C. Dennett. Symposium: Growing Autonomy in Human and Artificial Agents, University of Reading, UK, 8 May 2019.

Cogito Research Centre in Philosophy, Bologna, Italy, 6 December 2018.

Workshop: Illusionism as Theory of Consciousness, LABEX IEC, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France, 25 May 2018.

The Nature of Belief conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, 16-18 February 2018.

Conference on Self-Deception: What It Is and What It Is Worth, University of Basel, Switzerland, 25-27 October 2017.