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