Consciousness Conference LO24290

From: Richard Karash (Richard@karash.com)
Date: 04/02/00


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  CALL FOR REGISTRATION

            TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS ("TUCSON 2000")

                          April 10-15, 2000
                   Tucson Convention Center Music Hall
                           Tucson, Arizona

                           Sponsored by the
                    Center for Consciousness Studies
                      at the University of Arizona

              Note: Early registration deadline is February 7

Enclosed below is a tentative program for the fourth Tucson conference
on "Toward a Science of Consciousness", to be held in Tucson, Arizona,
from April 10-15. The program is subject to minor changes and
additions, but it is being circulated now since the deadline for early
(reduced rate) registration deadline is almost here. Note that the
deadline has been extended from February 4 to Monday, February 7.

The conference will bring together an extraordinary group of
researchers from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, physics,
anthropology, and many other areas. It will provide an opportunity to
assess the state of the field at the turn of the millennium -- the
progress that has been made, and the challenges that are ahead. A
special focus of the conference will be the question of how the
first-person and third-person perspectives can be integrated, and on
how first-person data about consciousness can be rigorously
incorporated into science along with third-person data about brain and
behavior.

Full details on the conference -- including information on
registration, lodging, full descriptions of pre-conference workshops,
banquet information, and so on -- can be found at the Center for
Consciousness Studies website at:

   http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/tucson2000/

Complete program details including titles and abstracts will be on the
site shortly. Further enquiries may be directed to Jim Laukes at
jlaukes@u.arizona.edu, or 520-626-9061.

We hope to see you there!

--David Chalmers.

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

PLENARY PROGRAM

MONDAY APRIL 10

8:30-10:40 NEUROBIOLOGICAL MODELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
             Gerald Edelman, John O'Keefe, John Taylor

11:10-12:35 FIRST-PERSON PERSPECTIVES ON DISORDERS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
             Bill Choisser, Knut Nordby

2:00-4:10: FIRST-PERSON METHODOLOGIES
             Russell Hurlburt, B. Alan Wallace, TBA

TUESDAY APRIL 11

8:30-10:40 IS VISUAL CONSCIOUSNESS A GRAND ILLUSION?
             Kevin O'Regan, Arien Mack, Jeremy Wolfe

11:10-12:35 AYAHUASCA AND CONSCIOUSNESS
             Luis Eduardo Luna/Pedro Amaringo, Benny Shanon

2:00-4:10 DOES CONSCIOUSNESS REQUIRE SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS?
             Robert van Gulick, Susan Blackmore, Susan Hurley

WEDNESDAY APRIL 12

8:30-10:40 IS NEURAL SYNCHRONY THE KEY TO CONSCIOUSNESS?
             Andreas Engel, Christoph von der Malsburg, Francisco Varela

11:10-12:35 TBA

THURSDAY APRIL 13

8:30-10:40 WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONSCIOUSNESS AND VOLITION?
             Daniel Wegner, John Searle, Chris Frith

11:10-12:35 SYNESTHESIA
             Carol Crane/Peter Grossenbacher, Jason Mattingley

2:00-4:10 VERBAL REPORTS AS A GUIDE TO CONSCIOUSNESS
             Lawrence Weiskrantz, Jonathan Schooler, Adam Zeman

FRIDAY APRIL 14

8:30-10:40 IS QUANTUM COMPUTATION RELEVANT TO CONSCIOUSNESS?
             Gerard Milburn, David Albert, TBA

11:10-12:35 MEDITATION AND CONSCIOUSNESS
             Shinzen Young, TBA

2:00-4:10 NEURAL CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUS VISION AND IMAGERY
             Stephen Kosslyn, Nancy Kanwisher, Itzhak Fried

SATURDAY APRIL 15

8:30-12:30 CONSCIOUSNESS AT THE MILLENIUM: WHERE ARE WE NOW, AND WHERE
             ARE WE GOING?
             (Panelists to include: Baars, Chalmers, Koch, Schlitz, Varela,
             Weiskrantz, and others.)

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Concurrent sessions will be held from 4:30-6:35pm on the four full
days. There will be six or seven sessions at a time, each of which
will include five talks of around 20 minutes each.

MONDAY APRIL 10

PHENOMENAL KNOWLEDGE
   (Siewert, Zawidski, Fogleman, Mangan, Bailey)
NEURAL CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS: FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES
   (Baars, Revonsuo, Guzeldere, Gallese, Freeman)
COMPUTATIONAL AND COGNITIVE MODELS
   (Sun, Levine, Samsonovich, Luger, TBA)
QUANTUM AND SUBCELLULAR BRAIN PROCESSES
   (Pribram, Chen, Behrman, Tuszynski, Yasue)
EMBODIMENT AND CONSCIOUSNESS
   (Thomas, Burwood, Weidenbaum, Buchanan, Solano)
ART, AESTHETICS, AND CONSCIOUSNESS
   (Esrock, Warr, Kac, Cox, Bergesen)
SLEEP AND DREAMING
   (Laberge, Kahn, Kahan, Gackenbach, Rebolledo)

TUESDAY APRIL 11

MATERIALISM, DUALISM, AND THE EXPLANATORY GAP
   (Stubenberg, Altern, Hanson, Latham, Hellie)
ATTENTION AND CHANGE BLINDNESS
   (Wilken, Huettel, Ellis, Engelian, Iwasaki)
METACOGNITION, SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS, AND VOLITION
   (Vignemont, Vogeley, Lampinen, Goddard, Whitehead)
CONSCIOUSNESS AND TIME
   (Klein, Block, Hitterdale, Tatko, Weinand)
FIRST-PERSON METHODS
   (Livingston, Arisaka, Kitzman, Brown, TBA)
SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE
   (Deslauriers, Whitfield, Baruss, Noble, Kerr)

THURSDAY APRIL 13

QUALIA: PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES
   (Moore, Myin, Kulvicki, Geisz, Gray)
VISUAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS NEURAL CORRELATES
   (Keenan, Mogi, Lutz/Varela, Kreiman/Koch, Mast)
UNCONSCIOUS PERCEPTION/PROCESSES
   (Carlson, Kotovsky, Snodgrass, Bernat, TBA)
EMERGENCE AND ONTOLOGIES
   (Silberstein, Hagan, Gabora, Feser, Bishop)
ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
   (Gamma, Winkelman, Wright, Krippner, Tart)
ETHICS AND VALUES
   (Deikman, Shear, Freeman, Allen, Torrance)
EMOTION AND CONSCIOUSNESS
   (Watt, Lane, Nielsen, Marijuan, Johnston)

FRIDAY APRIL 14

THE CONCEPT AND CONTENT OF CONSCIOUSNESS
   (de Sousa, Pitt, Robinson, Radovic, Antony)
BLINDSIGHT, COMA, AND ANESTHESIA
   (de Gelder, Preice, Spencer, John, Alkire)
AFFECTIVE QUALIA: EMOTION, PAIN, AND PLEASURE
   (Newton, Delancey, Aydede, Lau, Gustafson)
QUANTUM THEORY
   (Caffentzis, Aerts, Hunt, Burian, Roberts)
HYPNOSIS AND MEDITATION
   (Craigmyle, Schnyer, Bierman, Hastings, Gruzelier)
CROSSCULTURAL APPROACHES TO PHENOMENOLOGY
   (Travis, Meffert, Sarbacker, Sorenson, Frank)

POSTER SESSIONS

Poster sessions (with about 100 posters each) will be held on Monday,
Tuesday, and Friday from 7:00-10:00pm.

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

Preconference workshops will be held on Saturday and Sunday April 8
and 9, from 8:30am-12:30pm and from 2:15-6:15pm. Attendance costs $45
per workshop ($90 for an all-day workshop).

SATURDAY APRIL 8

Morning:

Bernard Baars, Ethical and cultural implications of consciousness studies
Roy Tascott/Victoria Vesna, Art, technology, and consciousness I:
   Distributed self
Victor Johnston, The functional role of conscious emotion

Afternoon:

John Taylor, Brain imaging and consciousness
Robert van Gulick, Emergence, reduction, and other alternatives
Marcos Novak/Christa Sommerer/Laurent Mignonneau, Art, technology,
   and consciousness II: Spaces for the mind

All day:

Charles Tart/Shinzen Young, Observing the mind: Basic training in
   skilled means

SUNDAY APRIL 9

Morning:

Kevin O'Regan, Change blindness
Francisco Varela, Neurophenomenology 101
Vittorio Gallese, Mirror neurons: Toward a neural correlate of
   intersubjectivity
Gerard Milburn, Introduction to quantum computation
Luna/Amaringo, Ayahuasca and modified states of consciousness

Afternoon:

Chris Frith, Abnormalities of consciousness with special reference
   to schizophrenia
Michael Winkelman/Barbara Crowe, Ritual and sound in producing altered
   states of consciousness
Stuart Hameroff/Paavo Pylkkanen/Scott Hagan, Quantum approaches to
   understanding consciousness
Stephen LaBerge, Exploring consciousness using lucid dreaming
Susan Hurley, Perception and action: Alternative views

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Full details online at

   http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/tucson2000/

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