The 10th Biennial Toward a Science of Consciousness, April 9-14, 2012 (Tucson, AZ)

The full program has been released for the 2012 Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference, and aside from Deepak Chopra being featured, it looks like another very interesting year of plenaries and individual sessions.

ONLINE Registration

LINKS TO TSC 2012 ABSTRACTS

PLENARY by Session

CONCURRENTS by Session

POSTERS by Session                                           

ART-TECHNOLOGY/HEALTH DEMOS by Session
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

CHOPRA Evening Workshop/Dinner  

EASTERN  PHILOSOPHY  FORUM  

Toward a Science ofConsciousness is a biennial conference held since 1994 in Tucson, Arizona, and known for rigorous, interdisciplinary approaches to essential questions of how the brain produces conscious experience, the nature of reality and our place in the universe.

This year, Toward a Science of Consciousness will be held at the luxurious, eco friendly Loews Ventana Canyon Resort Hotel. An estimated 600 participants from around the world are expected for the program which will include Plenary and Keynote Talks, Concurrent Talks, Posters, Art Tech Health Demos, Exhibits, Social Events, Side Trips and Pre Conference Activities. The program is below; For further information and registration see www.consciousness.arizona.edu

CONFERENCE PROGRAM TIMELINE

TUESDAY APRIL 10   

1:45 pm to 4:10 pm, Kiva Ballroom

Conference Opening, Plenary 1: War of the Worldviews    

Deepak Chopra, Menas Kafatos, Leonard Mlodinow, Susan Blackmore

4:30 pm to 6:35 pm, Rooms TBA, Concurrent Sessions 1 to 8 

(1) Panpsychism and Neutral Monism

       Blamauer, Turausky, Rangarajan, Coleman, Wallace

(2) Higher Order Theories

       Weisberg, Gennaro, Delancey, Bernier, Sebastian

(3) Agency and Emotion

       Shepherd, Faw, Howard, Dow, Heavey

(4) Attention in Psychology and Neuroscience

       Dinis, Cheng, T, Noel, Carmel, Stevens

(5) First Person Methods and Phenomenology

       Hurlburt, Hough, Shear, Woodruff-Smith, Mangan

(6) Biology and Consciousness

       P. Sahni, Gupta, Harrington, Beran, Craddock, Adams

(7) Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

       Pylkkanen, Keppler, Atmanspacher, Theise, Awret

(8) Science of Meditation: Sharp, Bhamidipati, Bellomo, Roy, G.Weber

6:45 pm to 10:00 pm:  Opening Reception, Kiva Plaza

WEDNESDAY APRIL 11

8:30 am to 10:40 am, Kiva Ballroom
Plenary 2: Searching for Consciousness
Melanie Boly, Antonio Zadra, George Mashour

11:10 am to 12:30 pm

Plenary 3: Attention Without Awareness?
Robert Kentridge, Jesse Prinz

2:00 pm to 4:10 pm

Plenary 4: Fractal Consciousness   

Biyu Jade He, Peter Walling, Stuart Hameroff

4:30 pm to 6:35 pm, Rooms TBA, Concurrent Sessions 9 to16

 (9) Dualism and Modal Arguments

        Robinson, Boutel, Williford, Brown, Barker

(10) The Self and Unity

         Kobes, Horst, Corabi, Combs, Mudrik

(11) Extended, Embodied, and Social Consciousness

         Schlicht, Krueger, Seeman, Carruthers, Bruno

(12) Neural Correlates of Consciousness

          Keller, Xu, Tamori, Brogaard, Proulx

(13) Cross Modal Perception

         Seaberg, Coseru, T. Weber, Judge, L'Hote

(14) Evolution and Free Will

         Mohan, Markan, McVeigh, V Mathur, Lent

(15) Altered States of Consciousness

         Martin, Whitmarsh, Garcia Romeu, Peres, Jandial

(16) Science and Spirituality

          Klein, Delorme, P. Satsangi Sahni, Weidenbaum, R Satsangi

  

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, Grand Ballroom Foyer

Poster Session 1 (Presenters TBA) (See Website)

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, Room TBA

Art Tech Demos  (See website)

Taylor, Loeth, Gluck, Kostiner, Seaberg, Shapero, Foster, Day

7:00 pm to 9:30 pm, Room TBA

Consciousness Video games, 2nd Life

Gackenbach, Doyle, Murzyn, Garvey, Martin, Walters, Rubin

9:45 pm  Music and Comedy, TBA

Vanda Mikoloski, The Conscious Comic                                             

S. Whitmarsh, S. Nelson

THURSDAY APRIL 12

8:30 am to 11:00 am, Kiva Ballroom
Plenary 5: HOT NOT? Higher Order Thought
Ned Block, David Rosenthal, Hakwan Lau, Victor Lamme

11:30 am to 12:50 pm, Kiva Ballroom

Plenary 6  Keynote: Identifying The Brain's Awareness System: Lessons from Coma and Related States

Steven Laureys

(Afternoon Free; Side Trips: Sabino Canyon Hike, Biosphere 2, Jeep Tour,

Sabino and Mt. Lemmon Tour, Desert Museum and Old Tucson Studios, Self-Organized Workshops)

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm Conference Dinner, Flying V Restaurant

FRIDAY APRIL 13

8:30 am to 10:40 am, Kiva Ballroom

Plenary 7: Echolocation and Consciousness
Daniel Kish, Lore Thaler, Cynthia Moss
11:10 am to 12:30 pm, Kiva Ballroom

Plenary 8 Keynote 2: Feeling the Future
Daryl Bem
2:00 pm to 4:10 pm, Kiva Ballroom

Plenary Session 9:  The Explanatory Gap  

Kevin O'Regan, Anthony Jack, Philip Goff

4:30 pm to 6:35 pm, Rooms TBA, Concurrent Sessions 17-24

 (17) Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge

          Pitt, Butler, Shargel, Sundstrom, Hellie*

(18) Philosophy of Perception   

          Farennikova, Arsenault, Olaguer, Knight, Kidd, Crutchfield*

(19) Foundations of the Science of Consciousness

         Molyneux, Kozuch, Mogi, Peressini, Marable *

(20) Disorders of Consciousness

         Suntharanganon, Fankhauser, Gusarova, Crosby, Gottschling

(21) Sleep Dreams

         Kahn, Gackenbach, Peimer, Glanzer, Murzyn

(22) Space, Time and Scale

         Maier, Bieberich, Dayal, Lloyd, Saroka,

(23) Education and Consciousness

         Sarath, Pappas, Mathur, Oved, Ahuja

(24) Nonlocality and Consciousness

         C. Brown, G. Schwartz, Moreira, S. Schwartz, Scott

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, Grand Ballroom Foyer, Poster Session 2 (Presenters TBA) (See Website) 

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, Room TBA, Health Demos

Baldwin, Alfaki, Brugnoli, Ilundain Agurazza, Graur, Trousdale

10:00 pm to 11:30 pm, Room TBA

Consciousness Poetry Slam, Zombie Blues, Talent Show 

SATURDAY APRIL 14

9:00 am to 11:30 am, Kiva Ballroom
Plenary Session 10: Time and the Brain
Moshe Gur, Eve Isham, Ronald Gruber, Geoff Lee *

12:00 am to 1:20 pm, Kiva Ballroom
Plenary Session 11: Consciousness and Hallucinogens
Katherine Maclean, Robin Carhart Harris

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*unconfirmed

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(Saturday afternoon Free, Self Organized Workshops,

Tennis Tournament, Hikes, Golf, book  early)

7:00 pm to ???, Saturday evening, Location TBA, End of Consciousness Party

PRE-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

MONDAY APRIL 9, 2012

Pre Conference Workshops

9:00 am to1:00 pm  

     Neuroscience of Music 

     Cross Modal Consciousness, Synesthesia

     Pranahuti Aided Meditation

     Survival of Consciousness After Death Hypothesis

2:00 pm to 6:00 pm      

     Exploring Frontiers of Mind Brain Relationship 1

     Cross Modal Consciousness, Synesthesia 2

MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2012 - FORUM

1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, Grand Ballroom

Forum on Eastern Philosophy and Consciousness

(Open to Conference Registrants)

MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2012    EVENING DINNER and WORKSHOP (ticket required)

5:30 pm to 7:00 pm, Kiva Plaza

 Dinner with Deepak Sunset Buffet

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, Kiva Ballroom

Special Workshop Deepak Chopra MD, FACP

Consciousness: The Ultimate Reality

TUESDAY APRIL 10, 2012

Pre Conference Workshops

9:00 am to 1:00 pm

Functional Neuroimaging of (Un)Consciousness?                                 

Philosophical Overview of Theories of Consciousness

Quantum Consciousness

Exploring Frontiers of Mind Brain Relationship 2

Pranahuti Aided Meditation

1:45 PM, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2012, KIVA BALLROOM

PLENARY PROGRAM BEGINS

Exhibitors, Sponsors

Journal of Consciousness Studies
The MIT Press
Oxford University Press
India Society of Southern Arizona
DEI Dayalbagh Educational Institute
The Chopra Center
The Center for Consciousness Studies
YeTaDel Foundation

On behalf of Program Committee

David Chalmers 

Stuart Hameroff

Uriah Kriegel

Abi Behar Montefiore

CENTER FOR CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES

Department of Anesthesiology

University of Arizona College of Medicine

University of Arizona Medical Center

Stuart Hameroff MD, Director

Abi Behar-Montefiore

www.consciousness.arizona.edu