SCCS Organizes Unique Workshop on Computational Neurophenomenology
By: Aleks Kossowska
Last updated: Wednesday, 4 March 2026
Mountain cabin in the Austrian Alps
Two postdoctoral fellows from SCCS, Robert Chis-Ciure and Ishan Singhal, are organizing a unique workshop on computational neurophenomenology. The workshop scheduled to take place between 22 –29th March, houses 18 early career researchers in a mountain cabin in the Austrian Alps. Their goal being to brainstorm novel approaches to formalize principles of phenomenology, such that they can be bridged with computational models and cognitive neuroscience.
Through a rigorous selection procedure, the workshop brings together participants from different fields of study. These include mathematics, psychology, philosophy, neuro and medical sciences, and machine learning. The workshop aims to discuss aspects of experiences such as valence, indeterminacy, dreams, dynamics, self, pain, and how these are altered under meditation and psychedelics. Along with these, meta-discussions of computational and mathematical approaches to phenomenology form a central theme of the workshop.
The workshop is supported by funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the Horizon 2020 programme via Grant 101019254 “CONSCIOUS,” awarded to Anil K. Seth. We also acknowledge the support from the Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative.