THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS | TSC 2020

 

PLENARY & KEYNOTE SESSIONS

   Abstracts  

TUESDAY, September 15, 2020

Plenary 1  TIME AND CONSCIOUSNESS  8:30 am-10:40 am MST

Carlo Rovelli, Sylvie Droit-Volet, Dean Buonomano

 

Plenary 2   REALITY / ILLUSION  11:10 am -12:30 pm MST 

Don Hoffman, Keith Frankish

 

Plenary 3  PSYCHEDELIC SCIENCE  2:00 pm - 4:30 pm MST

Gül Dölen, Paul Stamets, Christopher Timmermann-Slater, Mark Rasenick

 

Tuesday   Concurrent, Poster, Exhibit sessions: 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm MST
Consciousness Tonite: 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm MST

 

WEDNESDAY, September 16, 2020

Plenary 4  VIBRATIONS, RESONANCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS 8:30 am - 10:40 am  MST

Lawrence Zbikowski, Selen Atasoy, Tam Hunt, Jonathan Schooler

 

Plenary 5  ENHANCING CONSCIOUSNESS WITH BRAIN STIMULATION 11:10 am - 12:30 pm   MST

Alexander Bystritsky, Jay Sanguinetti, Shinzen Young

 

Plenary 6  PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE  2:00 pm - 4:10 pm   MST

Dennis McKenna, Sue Blackmore, Luis Eduardo Luna, Ede Frecska

 

Wednesday, Concurrent, Poster, Exhibit sessions: 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Consciousness Tonite: 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm

 

THURSDAY, September 17, 2020

7:00 am - 8:00 am  MST

Meditation with Deepak Chopra 

 

Plenary 7  PREDICTIVE CODING AND CONSCIOUSNESS 8:30 am 11:10 am  MST

Lucia Melloni, Peter Kok, Mark Miller

 

Plenary 8  THE ROLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN DECISION MAKING 11:40 am - 1:00 pm  MST 

Aaron Schurger, Uri Maoz, Eve Isham, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong 

 

Plenary 9   IS THE UNIVERSE CONSCIOUS? 2:30 pm - 4:40 pm MST

Miri Albahari, Deepak Chopra, Paavo Pylkkanen, Philip Goff

 

Keynote Plenary 10  EVOLUTION, EMOTION AND CONSCIOUSNESS  6:00 - 7:00 pm MST

Antonio Damasio 

 

Thursday, Film Panel Discussion 8:00–9:00 pm MST “Infinite Potential – The Life and Ideas of David Bohm” 
Consciousness Tonite: 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm MST

 

FRIDAY,  September 18, 2020

Plenary 11  QUANTUM CONSCIOUSNESS  9:00 am -11:40 am   MST

Hartmut Neven/Peter Read, Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Stuart Hameroff, Sir Roger Penrose

 

Keynote Plenary 12  SPACE AND TIME IN THE BRAIN 12:00 noon - 13:30 pm   MST

Edvard Moser, Nobel Laureate

 

Plenary 13  ORIGIN OF EEG 2:30 pm - 4:40 pm MST

Bruce MacIver, Paul L. Nunez, Horacio Cantiello, Alysson Muotri

 

Friday, Concurrent, Poster, Exhibit sessions: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm MST
Consciousness Tonite: 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm MST
Poetry Slam, Talent Show, Zombie Blues

 

Plenary & Keynote Affiliations / Bios

PL 1   

Carlo Rovelli, Aix-Marseilles U; 

Sylvie Droit-Volet, U Clermont; 

Dean Buonomano, UCLA

PL 2   

Don Hoffman, UC Irvine;

Keith Frankish, U Sheffield

PL 3   Paul Stamets, Mycologist, Medical Researcher; 

Christopher Timmermann-Slater, UC, London; 

Mark Rasenick, U Chicago;

Gül Dölen, Brain Science Instit., Kavli, Johns Hopkins U

PL 4   

Lawrence Zbikowski, U Chicago; 

Selen Atasoy, Oxford;

Tam Hunt; Jonathan Schooler, UCSB

PL 5   

Alexander Bystritsky, UCLA;

Jay Sanguinetti, U Arizona,

Shinzen Young, U Arizona

PL 6   

Dennis McKenna, Heffter Research Institute; 

Sue Blackmore U Plymouth; 

Luis Eduardo Luna, Wasiwaska Research Ctr;

Ede Frecska, U Debrecen

PL 7   Lucia Melloni, Max Planck Instit.; 

Peter Kok, UC London; 

Mark Miller, U Sussex

PL 8   

Uri Maoz, Chapman U; 

Aaron Schurger, Chapman U;

Eve Isham, U Arizona;

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Duke U

PL 9   

Miri Albahiri, U Western Australia; 

Deepak Chopra, Chopra Global;  

Paavo Pylkkanen, U of Helsinki, Finland and University of Skovde, Sweden,

Philip Goff, Central European U

PL 10 

Antonio Damasio, USC

PL 11 

Harmut Neven, Google Quantum AI; Peter Read, Vitruvian; 

Anirban Bandyopadhyaym NIMS; 

Sir Roger Penrose, Oxford; 

Stuart Hameroff, U Arizona

PL 12 

Edvard Moser, NTNU, Trondheim

PL 13 

Bruce MacIver, Stanford; 

Paul L. Nunez, Tulane;

Horacio Cantiello, UNSE Argentina;

Alysson Muotri, UCSD