Matthias Schachtler, M.A.
Forschungsstelle Neurophilosophie und Ethik der Neurowissenschaften
Forschungsstelle Neurophilosophie und Ethik der Neurowissenschaften
Matthias Schachtler is a doctoral student at the Research Centre for Neurophilosophy and Ethics of Neuroscience. He studied philosophy and political science at the University of Zurich (UZH) and later continued his studies at the University of Munich (LMU) in philosophy and Chinese language and culture (BA), where he also completed a further purely philosophy focused graduate degree (MA).
The main question guiding the dissertation project of Matthias Schachtler is “are mental events predictable?”. Even if physical events may be predictable to a high degree, the intentions (mental events) that may lie behind some physical events may be far more difficult to predict, especially for algorithms incapable of human thought. The goal is to uncover why this may be the case and to argue why this problem may persist, even if significant further advancements in computational power are made.