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<div><font color="black"><b>Agora Speaker Series – Professor</b></font><font color="black"><b><i>
</i></b></font><font color="#1B1B1B"><b>Mario Villalobos</b></font><font color="black"><b>, Thursday 21 March, 3.30PM to 5.00 PM, 20-4<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)">, University of Wollongong</span></b></font></div>
<div><font color="black"><br></font><font color="black">Professor
</font><font color="#1B1B1B">Mario Villalobos</font><font color="black"> (</font><font color="#1B1B1B">University of<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(32,18,77)"> </span></font><font color="#1B1B1B">Tarapaca, Chile</font><font color="black">)</font></div>
<div><b style="color:rgb(27,27,27)"><br></b></div><div><b style="color:rgb(27,27,27)">Guidelines for an Autopoietic Approach to Phenomenal Consciousness</b><br></div>
<div><br></div><div><font color="#1B1B1B">With a primarily epistemological focus, autopoietic theory has long and emphatically argued for a constructivist and anti-representational conception of perceptual experience. However, it has said little or almost nothing
about the phenomenal dimension of said experience considered in itself (i.e., disregarding its epistemological status). For instance, while it is relatively clear how autopoietic notions such as operational closure and structural determinism ground an anti-representational
epistemology, it is not clear how they might contribute (if at all) to explaining phenomenality as such. Overall, autopoietic theory has remained notably silent about phenomenal consciousness as a philosophical problem. In this talk, I analyse the theory's
central philosophical/methodological commitments and outline, in conversation with some extant theories of consciousness (e.g., enactivism, IIT), the guidelines of what might become an autopoietic approach to phenomenal consciousness. </font></div>
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</font><font color="#1B1B1B">Mario Villalobos followed undergraduate studies in medicine (University of Concepción, Chile) and psychology (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile). He obtained a master’s in philosophy at the University of Chile and
received his PhD in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh. Since 2016, he is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the School of Psychology and Philosophy, University of Tarapaca, Chile, and from 2022 to 2023, he was appointed
an associate researcher in the Department of Philosophy in The School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex, UK. His main area of research is the philosophical development of the autopoietic theory of living beings and cognition.</font></div>
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</font><font color="black">The event will be held in <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(32,18,77)">Building </span>20-4<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(32,18,77)">, University of Wollongong</span>. All welcome!</font></div>
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