The Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona
announces further details of two upcoming events.
The interdisciplinary conference, Toward a Science of Consciousness,
Tucson 2000, will be held in Tucson, Arizona, April 10-15, 2000. The
plenary program, pre-conference workshops and registration details are now
available on our website:
<http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/Tucson2000>.
Confirmed speakers include: Francisco Varela, Gerald Edelman, Stephen
Kosslyn, Susan Hurley, Christof Koch, Nancy Kanwisher, Roger Penrose, Knut
Nordby, John Searle among many others.
Full details are available on the web. However, if you would like to
receive a registration brochure, please contact us at
extuniv@u.arizona.edu or call 520-621-7724. Please include your full
postal address.
MODERN SCIENCE AND THE MIND(MSM) is an online non-credit course which will
be presented during the coming semester by the Center for Consciousness
Studies at the University of Arizona.
Specifically designed for the general public, MSM examines salient aspects
of current physical, biological, cognitive, and social sciences to provide
a sound basis for evaluating the role of science in consciousness studies.
Participants are encouraged to appreciate the immense intricacy of real
biological, social and mental phenomena, moving beyond sweeping
theoretical formulations toward a balanced understanding of what science
may be able to contribute to current discussions of the body, the brain,
and the mind.
MSM is organized around fifteen "presentations" of about 5000 words each,
which are written in a lively and reader friendly style that avoids
technical jargon. These presentations feature many links to related web
sites, enabling participants to gain a broad appreciation for the scope of
current activities in modern consciousness science.
MSM will run for fifteen weeks, from 17 January 2000 through 8 May 2000,
with a week off for the Tucson 2000 conference. One presentation will be
posted on the web each Monday, together with independent contributions
from a distinguished selection of "commentators". Throughout the week,
participants are encouraged to interact with the commentators, the "course
leader", and among themselves on topics related to the presentations.
For more general information on this course, please visit
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/modernsci/beta/form2.cgi For
registration in the course, go to
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/modernsci/reg.html
COURSE LEADER
Alwyn Scott is a professor at both in the Department of Mathematics at the
University of Arizona and in the Department of Mathematical Modelling at
the Technical University of Denmark. He is a founding editor of Physica D:
Nonlinear Phenomena, and the founding director of the Center for Nonlinear
Studies at the Los Alamos National Laboratories. At UA, he is a member of
the Program in Applied Mathematics, the Neurosciences Program, and an
Associate Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies. For more
information, please visit
http://www.imm.dtu.dk/documents/users/acs/homepage.html
PRESENTATIONS
For a list of synopses of the MSM presentations, please visit
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/modernsci/contCourseReqSynop.html
Presentation #1 is currently available for viewing at
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/modernsci/presCurrentLecture.html
For registration in the course, go to
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/modernsci/reg.html
--Jim Laukes <jlaukes@U.Arizona.EDU>
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