PLENARY SPEAKERS Photos/Bios 

 

    Steven                Susan         Daryl              Leonard           Menas            Deepak          Victor            Stuart              

LAUREYS   BLACKMORE          BEM        MLODINOW      KAFATOS          CHOPRA       LAMME    HAMEROFF

                                   

 

   Mélanie              Ned      Cynthia            Robert    Hakwan         George        Jesse           Biyu              David          

       BOLY         BLOCK        MOSS    KENTRIDGE           LAU    MASHOUR       PRINZ    JADE HE  ROSENTHAL 

                                            Photo of                                             Ned Block                

 

      Kevin           Daniel      Moshe               Lore            Ronald                 Eve         Anthony           Antonio                      

  O'Regan            KISH          GUR          THALER         GRUBER            ISHAM             JACK             ZADRA                

                

 

        Peter             Marcela                   Philip

 WALLING           HERDOVA                  GOFF

         

                                                                                                                                                               

Plenary Schedule

                                               Tuesday April 10
Plenary Session 1, 1:45 to 4:10 pm
War of the Worldviews:  A dialog among 

Deepak Chopra, Menas Kafatos, Leonard Mlodinow and Susan Blackmore 

                                              Wednesday April 11
Plenary Session 2, 8:30 to 10:40 am
Searching for Consciousness:   

Melanie Boly, Antonio Zadra, George Mashour 

Plenary Session 3, 11:10 am to 12:30 pm
Attention Without Awareness?:       

Robert Kentridge, Jesse Prinz 


Plenary Session 4, 2:00 to 4:10 pm
Fractal Consciousness:     

Biyu Jade He, Peter Walling, Stuart Hameroff

                                               Thursday April 12   
Plenary Session 5, 8:30 am to 11:00 am
HOT/NOT: Higher Order Theories of Consciousness 

Ned Block, David Rosenthal, Hakwan Lau, Victor Lamme 

Plenary Session 6, Keynote, 11:30 am to 1:00 pm - keynote
Identifying The Brain's Awareness System:

Lessons From Coma And Related States

Steven Laureys

                                                            Friday April 13
Plenary Session 7, 8:30 to 10:40 am
Echolocation:  

Daniel Kish, Lore Thaler, Cynthia Moss 

Plenary Session 8, Keynote 11:10 am to 12:30 pm

Feeling the Future:  Keynote

Daryl Bem  


Plenary Session 9, 2:00 to 4:10 pm

The Explanatory Gap:  

Kevin O'Regan, Anthony Jack,  Philip Goff

                                                                                Saturday April 14   

Plenary Session 10, 9:00 to 11:10 am

Time and the Brain:

Moshe Gur, Eve Isham , Marcela Herdova, Ronald Gruber 

 

Conference Closing, TBA

     

Concurrent Schedule          

Concurrent Sessions and Presenters - in progress 

Tuesday April 10, 4:30 pm to 6:35 pm

(1)     Panpsychism and Neutral Monism
(2)     Higher-Order Theories

(3)     Agency and Emotion
(4)     Attention in Psychology and Neuroscience
(5)     First-Person Methods and Phenomenology
(6)     Biology
(7)     Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
(8)     Science of Meditation

Wednesday April 11, 4:30 pm to 6:35 pm

(9)     Dualism and Modal Arguments
(10) The Self and Unity
(11) Extended, Embodied, and Social Consciousness
(12) Neural Correlates of Consciousness
(13) Cross-Modal Perception and Synesthesia
(14) Evolution of Consciousness: 
(15) Altered States of Consciousness
(16) Science and Spirituality


Friday April 13, 4:30 pm to 6:35 pm

(17) Phenomenal Concepts and Knowledge
(18) Philosophy of Perception and Attention

(19) Foundations of the Science of Consciousness
(20) Disorders of Consciousness

(21) Sleep/Dreams
(22) Space, Time and Scale
(23) Education and Consciousness
(24) Nonlocality and Consciousness

     


 

POSTER SESSION SCHEDULE     

POSTER SESSIONS and PRESENTERS - in progress 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11   Session 1

FRIDAY, APRIL 13              Session 2


ART/TECH/HEALTH DEMO SCHEDULE     

ART-TECHNOLOGY/HEALTH DEMO EXHIBITS and PRESENTERS  

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11   Session 1

FRIDAY, APRIL 13              Session 2

 


LINKS TO CONFERENCE PAGES:

PLENARY PROGRAM 

WELCOME RECEPTION                    Tues

CONCURRENTS                                  Tues / Wed / Fri        

POSTER SESSIONS                           Wed / Fri 

ART-TECHNOLOGY/HEALTH DEMOS  Wed / Fri                 

CLUB CONSCIOUSNESS                   Wed 

ZOMBIE BLUES                                    Fri           

End of Consciousness party           Sat   

 Hospitality Suite                                       

Optionals:

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS                          Mon / Tues  

CHOPRA Evening Workshop/dinner                      Mon pm

CONFERENCE DINNER                                               Thurs pm

Side Trips                                                                    Thurs afternoon         

golf, tennis                                                          

 

REGISTER - early registration by Feb 15 

Program Participants Must Register by Jan 31

ONLINE Registration 

$450 Standard                full conference pass

$350 Student                  full conference pass

$250 Spouse/Partner   social activity/partner session pass

(welcome reception, partner's program session, evening sessions, club, zombie blues, party)

Print out Early Registration Form

Registration Form - download - Jan 2012Ver      

 

Late registration after Feb 15

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$395 Student

$295 Spouse

 

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  PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS 

    Full List of Workshops and Descriptions - here

  Neuroscience of Music   (Graur)          

  Cross Modal Consciousness-Synesthesia    (Seaberg et al)                

  Survival of consciousness after death hypothesis  (Beischel) 

  Pranahuti Aided Meditation  (Sastry, Weng)    

   How Do Doctors Measure the (Un)Consciousness?   (Laureys)         

   Bayesian Statistics - The Bem-Wagenmaker Debate   (Klein, Morash)

   Exploring Frontiers of Mind Brain Relationship  (Fenwick, Moreira-Almeda, Araujo, Peres)                    

   .... (part 2).....Cross Modal /Synesthesia      Pranahuti Aided Meditation  (Sastry, Weng)

                                                                               optional Monday evening DINNER  at 5:30                                

     Neuroscience of Enlightenment     (Chopra)

Functional Neuroimaging of (Un)Consciousness?  (Laureys)

 Philosophical Overview of Theories of Consciousness     (Kreigel, Weisberg) 

 Quantum Consciousness Update  (Hameroff et al)  

  William James 'On the Fringe'   (Mangan)

  Consciousness and Video Game Play   (Gackenbach et al)                                                           

  ....  (part 2).... Exploring Frontiers of Mind Brain Relationship       (Fenwick, Moreira-Almeda, Araujo, Peres)    

 

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                                    March 16 -  deadline for Conference Rate - $99

                              

          2012 Conference Venue - Loews Ventana Canyon Resort - Tucson

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Toward a Science of Consciousness is the largest and longest-running interdisciplinary conference

emphasizing broad and rigorous approaches  to the study of conscious awareness. Topical areas

include neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, biology, quantum physics, meditation and altered states,

machine consciousness, culture and experiential phenomenology. Held annually since 1994, the conference

is organized by the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona, and alternates yearly

between Tucson, Arizona and various locations around the world.

  


Past Symposiums

Microtubule update

Megahertz coherence,

ballistic conductance

and quantum computing

UA, Tucson Campus MRB102

October 28, 2010  

pdf/Flyer/abstracts

link to seminar podcast

 

GOOGLE

Workshop on Quantum Biology

Oct. 22, 2010    details     pdf-flyer


some past ccs news selections

 

Archives of QUANTUM-MIND@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU

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ALWYN C. SCOTT

1931 - 2007    

We regret to announce the passing of CCS co-founder Al Scott after a long illness.

Al was a wonderful man and a good friend who pioneered nonlinear science and         emergence and applied them to the study of consciousness.

Al’s book “Stairway to the Mind” is the classic work on emergence of consciousness,  and his last book “The nonlinear universe” will appear later this year. Al is survived

by his loving wife Lynn MacNeill, daughter Leila and sons Emmon and Alwyn Jr.

Click here for Al’s story as told by Alwyn Jr.

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WELCOME RECEPTION   Tues

CONCURRENTS  Tues, Wed, Fri        

POSTER SESSIONS   Wed, Fri 

ART-TECHNOLOGY/HEALTH DEMOS  Wed, Fri                 

CLUB CONSCIOUSNESS  Wed 

ZOMBIE BLUES   Fri           

End of Consciousness party   Sat   

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Conference Themes

  HOT or NOT: Debate on higher-order theories 

  War of the Worldviews

  Consciousness and echolocation

  Time, retrocausality and consciousness

  Fractal consciousness: Scale-free brain structure/dynamics        

  Attention without awareness?

  Searching for consciousness in anesthesia and coma

The Biennial Tucson Conference since 1994     

Known for rigorous and leading edge approaches to all aspects of the study of conscious experience, TSC includes neuroscience, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, neurobiology, medicine, quantum physics and cosmology as well as art, mind technology and experiential and contemplative approaches. TSC is the largest interdisciplinary gathering probing fundamental questions related to conscious experience. An estimated 500 scientists, philosophers, psychologists, experientialists, artists and students from over 60 countries are due to take part. An annual TSC is held overseas in cooperation with

partner organizations and institutions - cities included:

Stockholm, Hong Kong, Salzburg, Budapest, Tokyo, Naples,

Elsinore.

 

 

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Upcoming

March-April 2012

Sages and Scientists - Carlsbad

Third International Symposium March 3-5, 2012 

Science, Technics and Aesthetics- Lucerne

The 9th Swiss Biennial  March 31-April 1, 2012

Toward a Science of Consciousness - Tucson

The 10th Biennial April  9-14, 2012 

 


Past Symposiums

2011

QANSAS 2011, Agra, India

Quantum and Nanocomputing Systems

December 1-4, 2011

Newly published, Ebner and Hameroff

'Lateral Information Processing by Spiking Neurons:

A Theoretical Model of the Neural Correlate of Consciousness'

Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

New paper on Orch OR by Penrose and Hameroff         

Consciousness in the Universe'  

Life After Death' Season 2, Episode 1, Part 2, aired: June 8, 2011 

Stuart R. Hameroff, on Miracle Detectives, OWN, Feb 2011


It's History -May 2011

TSC 2011 Stockholm

Aula Magna Hall

Thank you to our Keynote and Featured Speakers and all the Plenary,Concurrent, Poster Participants, Art Tech Presenters and Volunteers. Special thanks to Mind Event.

2011 Stockholm Photos

2011 Stockholm Program Index

Biomedical Communications, AHSC, UMC         

                                                                                   

Roger Penrose, Stuart Hameroff

Why STOCKHOLM for the 2011 ?

Hur skapas medvetandet? Är det något som skapas

av hjärnan eller finns det redan?Är universum medvetet?

Är medvetandet flexibelt i tid och rum? Ett tvärvetenskapligt

forum den 3 -7 maj i Aula Magna, Stockholms Universitet

Swedish - Facebook Discussions

AULA MAGNA HALL  Stockholm University

Post event:

NCP Photos


TUCSON - 2010 

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2010  FINAL Program/ABSTRACTS

2010  INDEX to Conference Web pages

2010  Photos     

2010  Program Summary Pages from Journal


TUCSON 2008

2008 PROGRAM INDEX

 

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2008  PHOTOS

Dave Chalmers' 2008 photos

Your 2008 Photos

 


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iTunes - Univ of AZ PODCAST/ B.J. Baars    


More Oldies But Goodies

TSC 2009 Hong Kong

Ken Mogi, The Contingent Brain

David Chalmers, The Extended Mind Revisited

Chalmers on Science of Consciousness '07

Stuart Hameroff, Quantum Perspective

2009 Photos

 Quantum Mind 3

July 17-21, 2007 Salzburg, Austria

Gustav Bernroider, University of Salzburg

 Toward a Science of Consciousness

July 23-27, 2007 Budapest, Hungary

George Kampis, Hungarian Foundation for

Cognitive Science, Eotvos University

Toward a Science of Consciousness 2006
April 4-8, 2006, Tucson, Arizona

Chalmers on Neural Correlates '06

Abstracts, program etc., Click here

JCS Review - "Are we studying consciousness yet?" by Bill Faw Click here

PHOTOS:

Dave Chalmers' conference photos

http://consc.net/chalmers/

MORE PHOTOS FROM 2006

some other video and audio ...in the can...

TSC 1994 +

TSC1996

RetroCon

Moral Phenomenology Workshop Wrap-Up

Consciousness in Copenhagen

Picture Slide Show by Robert van Gulick

Journal of Consciousness Studies

before that, see Archives

Archives of QUANTUM-MIND@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU

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