Proceedings, Volume 126, 2025

In an era of unprecedented technological advancements in intelligent and cognitive technologies, the concept of intelligence—both human and artificial—stands at the center [...]

The widely accepted view in theoretical linguistics is that language is the main source of human unique capacities. It is often used to justify the assumption that language can be studied as an autonomous system. However, this view has been challenge...

“Bog bodies,” ancient human remains found in northern European peat bogs, were often sacrificial kings offered to fertility god during famines. Killing king represents a “Traumatic Structure” identified in the Natural Born Int...

This paper critiques the artificial intelligence (AI) framework as a self-referential system that relates parts to wholes without genuine creativity. Emotions—understood as forms of politics—emerge when top-down commands override local pr...

Traditional rationalist and task-based models of intelligence obscure the diverse cognitive processes underlying performance by focusing on abstract reason and observable outcomes. This paper argues that Carl Jung’s typological theory provides...

The fast advancement of artificial intelligence presents ethical challenges that exceed the scope of traditional moral theories. This paper proposes a value-centered framework for AI ethics grounded in axiology, which distinguishes intrinsic values l...

Intentionality, understood as the capacity of systems to be “about” something, remains a central issue in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Classical approaches face significant limitations, especially when applied to artifici...

The aim of this study is to outline a theoretical framework for exploring possible interactions between the concepts of information, intelligence, and the experience of beauty, including efforts to communicate the latter. These notions are inherently...

The same term “intelligence” is used in different contexts as if there were a consensus on its meaning, even if already within the paradigmatic subject of human intelligence, the dominating view is that there are multiple (two, three, eig...

This paper explores the intersection of H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmicism and contemporary artificial intelligence (AI), proposing a philosophical shift from anthropocentric AI development to a “cosmicist” approach. Cosmicism, with its emp...

We build on the predictive processing framework to show that intelligent behaviour is adaptive control, driven by accurate prediction and uncertainty reduction in dynamic environments with limited information. We argue that adaptive control arises th...

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have reignited discussions concerning the similarities and differences between human and machine intelligence. This article approaches such questions from the viewpoint of the overarching explanation fo...

I recently developed the concept of eco-cognitive openness and situatedness to explain how cognitive systems, whether human or artificial, engage dynamically with their surroundings to generate information and creative outcomes through abductive cogn...

This survey investigates the concept of transitive self-reflection as a fundamental criterion for detecting and measuring intelligence. We explore the manifestation of this ability in humans, consider its potential presence in other animals, and disc...

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems continue to outperform humans in an increasing range of specialised tasks, a fundamental question emerges at the intersection of philosophy, cognitive science, and engineering: should we aim to build AIs that t...

This paper proposes biomimicry as a paradigm for helping to overcome both the conceptual and technological limitations of current AI systems. It begins by outlining three key challenges faced by modern AI and then proceeds to introduce the concept of...

This work argues that there is more than one form of knowledge. By comparing human cognition with Rodney Brooks’ behavior-based robots, which act without representational content, I show that humans interact with the world through contentful re...

Confucian ethics, as a form of virtue ethics, focuses on moral practices and ritual norms, which differ significantly from utilitarian and deontological theories. Confucian ethics emphasize that moral norms are not only theoretically prescribed, but...

To model informatic intelligence, agency, consciousness and the like, one must address a claimed Hard Problem: that a grasp of ‘the mind’ lies wholly beyond scientific views. While this claim is suspect, persistent analogues can be identi...

As artificial intelligence advances toward unprecedented capabilities, society faces a choice between two trajectories. One continues scaling transformer-based architectures, such as state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, Claude, a...

Intelligence is a central topic in computing and philosophy, yet its origins and biological roots remain poorly understood. The framework proposed in this paper approaches intelligence as the complexification of agency across multiple levels of organ...

Science pursues objectivity. According to Thomas Nagel, “we must get outside of ourselves, and view the world from nowhere within it” is the most natural expression of this goal. However, we cannot literally get outside of ourselves; real...