


From July 6 to 9, 2025, the 28th annual conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, ASSC 28, was held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
The event brought together leading specialists in philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence to discuss current theoretical and empirical questions concerning the nature of consciousness. The conference program included keynote lectures, symposia, oral presentations, and poster presentations on topics such as subjective experience, the neural correlates of consciousness, theories of consciousness, artificial intelligence, as well as methodological issues and the limits of the scientific study of consciousness.
MCCS researchers presented poster papers at the conference:
Evgeny Loginov — Does a Simple Theory of Introspection Refute Illusionism About Qualia?
Anton Kuznetsov — Possibilist and Impossibilist Illusionism
Artem Besedin — Spinozan Belief Procedure and the Illusion Meta-Problem
Taras Tarasenko — A Logical Deadlock for Qualia: Why Accepting or Rejecting Zombies Points to Illusionism