*(invited)
*2025 Major Transitions in Cognitive Evolution Kialoa Workshop, Australian National University
- “Evolutionary Divergence and Monitor Lizard Cognition”
*2025 Active Inference Lab, Livestream
- “Slime Mould and Philosophy”
*2024 Flora in Focus, Ruhr University Bochum
- “Climbing Plant Behaviour, Reversible Responses, and Resource Spaces”
2024 British Society of the Philosophy of Science annual meeting, University of York
- “On the Prospects of Basal Cognition Research Becoming Fully Evolutionary”
2023 European Society of Philosophy and Psychology, Prague
- “The Principle of Dynamic Holism: guiding methodology for investigating cognition in non-neuronal organisms”
*2023 CeLab PhD Seminar Series, University of Lisbon
- “The Principle of Dynamic Holism”
*2023 IUSS Philosophy Seminar Seminars: kinds of mind seminar cycle, University of Pavia
- “The Principle of Dynamic Holism: guiding methodology for investigating cognition in non-neuronal organisms” (guest lecture)
*2022 Philosophy Forum, University of Wollongong
- “Scientific methods in cognitive science”
*2022 2nd Magnus Symposium: On the nature of information, University of Bremen
“4E Cognition: yesterday, today, and tomorrow” (keynote speaker)
*2021 Active Inference Lab, Livestream
- “How to count biological minds: symbiosis, the Free-energy Principle, and reciprocal multiscale integration”
*2021 ESPP Symposium, University of Vienna
- “Cognition in Bloom”
*2021 AIMS workshop, University of Wollongong
- “Memory Making: Plasmodial slime mould and the extended (non-neuronal) mind”
*2021 Allen Discovery Center guest talk (Michael Levin Lab), Tufts University
- “Adaptivity, Anticipation, and Major Transitions in Cognition”
*2020 Minimal Systems, Agency, and Intelligence, University of Wollongong
- “Escaping the Grip of Folk Biology: the sensorimotor coordination criterion of cognition and a case of motility symbiosis”
*2019 XSPECT workshop, Sussex University
- “Symbiotic Mind: a case for bio-cognitive pluralism”
- Microbiota, Symbiosis, and Individuality ERC IDEM summer school
- “Biological Foundations of Cognition and Predictive Processing”
2018 The Open Sessions of the Aristotelian Society, Oxford University
“Dissolving the Problem of Visual Mental Imagery for an Enactive Account of Predictive Processing”
Matthew Sims 