Toward a Science of Consciousness 2004
David Chalmers
TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 2004
April 7-11, 2004
Tucson Convention Center
Tucson, Arizona
http://consciousness.arizona.edu/tucson2004/
The sixth "Toward a Science of Consciousness" conference will be held
at the Tucson Convention Center in Tucson, Arizona, on April 7-11,
2004. This conference will mark the tenth anniversary of the landmark
Tucson consciousness conference in 1994.
You may find more details and register for the conference at:
http://consciousness.arizona.edu/tucson2004/
The early registration deadline is FEBRUARY 1. Before the deadline,
registration fees are $180 (regular) and $80 (students). After the
deadline, registration fees are $230 (regular) and $130 (students).
The full program for the conference is now available on the conference
website. A preliminary program is attached below. The program
includes plenary and concurrent oral sessions, poster sessions, and
pre-conference workshops (April 6-7). Additional events will include
a reception (Wednesday April 7), a conference banquet at the
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (Friday April 9), a poetry slam (Saturday
April 10), and an end-of-conference party (Sunday April 11).
PLENARY SESSIONS
PL1: SYNESTHESIA AND NEURAL PLASTICITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR A THEORY OF
CONSCIOUSNESS
Wednesday April 7, 2-4:10pm
Ned Block, Functionalism, Physicalism and Neural Plasticity
Jeffrey Gray, Implications of Synaesthesia for the Functionalist
Account of Conscious Experience
Alva Noe, What Does Synesthesia Teach About the Neural Basis of Consciousness?
PL2: WHAT ARE THE NEURAL CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS?
Thursday April 8, 8:30-10:40am
Christof Koch, A Neurobiological Framework for Consciousness
David Leopold, Neural Correlates of Induced Visual Suppression
Andrew Matus, Does the Cytoskeleton Contribute to Consciousness?
PL3: KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Thursday April 8, 11:10am-12:30pm
Roger Penrose, TBA
PL4: HOW DO HALLUCINOGENS AFFECT CONSCIOUSNESS?
Thursday April 8, 2-4:10pm
Alexander Shulgin, Hallucinogens and Consciousness
Franz Vollenweider, Brain Mechanisms of Hallucinogens
Thomas Ray, The Chemical Architecture of the Human Mind:
Probing Receptor Space with Psychedelics
PL5: IS CONSCIOUS WILL AN ILLUSION?
Friday April 9, 8:30-10:40am
Daniel Wegner, Conscious Will: The Body
Terry Horgan, Conscious Will is no Illusion
Roy Baumeister, Creativity, Consciousness, and Free Will:
Experimental Findings
PL6: KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Friday April 9, 11:10am-12:30pm
Zoltan Torey, Consciousness: The View from Within
PL7: IS THERE ATTENTION OUTSIDE AWARENESS?
Saturday April 10, 8:30-10:40am
Victor Lamme, Separate Neural Definitions of Conscious Vision and Attention:
A Case for Phenomenal Awareness
Ronald Rensink, The Problem of Awareness and Attention:
Not Enough Awareness of Attention or Attention to Awareness
Guven Guzeldere, Attention and the Phenomenal Character of Visual Perception
PL8: KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Saturday April 10, 11:10am-12:30pm
Steven Pinker, Is Consciousness an Evolutionary Adaptation?
PL9: ETHICS AND THE BRAIN
Saturday April 10, 2-4:10pm
Martha Farah, From the Decade of the Brain to the Neuroscience Century:
Neuroethical Issues in Our Future
Joshua Greene, Cognitive Conflict and Control in Moral Judgment
Deborah Denno, A Mind to Blame: Exploring the Link between Crime and Consciousness
PL10: IS THERE METACOGNITION IN ANIMALS?
Sunday April 11, 8:30-10:40am
Wendy Shields, Standards of Evidence in Animal Metacognition
Janet Metcalfe, Metacognition and the Emergence of Reflective Consciousness
Peter Carruthers, Two Models of Meta-Cognition
PL11: KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Sunday April 11, 11:10am-12:30pm
Daniel Dennett, Qualia Questioned: Once More With Feeling
PL12: TENTH ANNIVERSARY SESSION
Sunday April 11, 2-4:10pm
TBA
II. CONCURRENT SESSIONS
C1: ONTOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Wednesday April 7, 4:30-6:35pm
[Holman, Bailey, Stubenberg, Savage, Rosenberg]
C2: FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES IN THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Wednesday April 7, 4:30-6:35pm
[LaRock, Waller, Faw, Myin, Sagiv]
C3: UNCONSCIOUS AND IMPLICIT PROCESSES
Wednesday April 7, 4:30-6:35pm
[Mashour, Panksepp, Hudetz, Snodgrass, Destrebecqz]
C4: SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SELF
Wednesday April 7, 4:30-6:35pm
[Meeks, Valdiserri, Alexander, Wright, Niebauer]
C5: PARAPSYCHOLOGY
Wednesday April 7, 4:30-6:35pm
[Abreu, Schwartz, Creath, Van Lommel, Schneider]
C6: SUBCELLULAR AND QUANTUM BRAIN PROCESSES
Wednesday April 7, 4:30-6:35pm
[Bieberich, Pizzi, Tuszynski, Woolf, Hameroff]
C7: FIRST-PERSON APPROACHES
Wednesday April 7, 4:30-6:35pm
[Hurlburt, Freeman, Heavey, Barresi, Petranker]
C8: ZOMBIES AND MATERIALISM
Thursday April 8, 4:30-6:35pm
[Brook, Alter, Biggs, Byrne, Giunti]
C9: SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND INTROSPECTION
Thursday April 8, 4:30-6:35pm
[Brown, Yang, Bengson, Robinson, Schwitzgebel]
C10: NEURAL CORRELATES OF VISUAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Thursday April 8, 4:30-6:35pm
[Johannson, Macknik, Kentridge, Heywood, Hofstoetter]
C11: COGNITIVE AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS
Thursday April 8, 4:30-6:35pm
[Chella, Holland, Blackmore, Briscoe, Mogi]
C12: MEDITATION AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Thursday April 8, 4:30-6:35pm
[Travis, Louchakova, Meyer, Humphreys, Manocha]
C13: QUANTUM AND ELECTROMAGNETIC APPROACHES
Thursday April 8, 4:30-6:35pm
[McFadden, Duggins, Bernroider, Atmanspacher, Thaheld]
C14: ART AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Thursday April 8, 4:30-6:35pm
[Hanna, Ascott, Little, Seeley, Lobell]
C15: REDUCTION AND THE EXPLANATORY GAP
Saturday April 10, 4:30-6:35pm
[Horst, Maxwell, Whiting, Copenhaver, Weisberg]
C16: REPRESENTATIONALISM AND HIGHER-ORDER THOUGHT
Saturday April 10, 4:30-6:35pm
[Gennaro, Kriegel, Thompson, Thomas, Droege]
C17: VISION AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Saturday April 10, 4:30-6:35pm
[Breitmeyer, Chrisley, Beeckmans, Elliott, Lou]
C18: SLEEP AND DREAMING
Saturday April 10, 4:30-6:35pm
[Wolman, Blagrove, Kahn, Cheyne]
C19: HALLUCINOGENS AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Saturday April 10, 4:30-6:35pm
[Carter, Winkelman, Levin, Jansen, Mercante]
C20: THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Saturday April 10, 4:30-6:35pm
[De Ridder, Whitehead, Hunt, Elbert, Arp]
C21: CONSCIOUS WILL AND ACTION
Saturday April 10, 4:30-6:35pm
[Ellis, Kaplan, Klein, Peterson, Denno]
III. POSTER SESSIONS
P1: POSTER SESSION
Thursday April 8, 7-10pm
P2: POSTER SESSION
Saturday April 10, 7-10pm
IV. PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
Tuesday April 6, 9am-1pm
W1: Bernard Baars & Katharine McGovern
What Scientists have Learned about Consciousness and the Brain: A
Decade of Remarkable Evidence
W2: Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik
Visibility and Visual Awareness
W3: Charles T. Tart
Observing the Mind, Part 1: Basic Training in Skillful Means
Tuesday April 6, 2pm-6pm
W4: Charles T. Tart
Observing the Mind, Part 2: Mindfulness in Everyday Life
W5: Ronald Rensink
Attention, Consciousness, and Visual Perception
W6: Uriah Kriegel
Philosophical Theories of Consciousness
W7: Stephen LaBerge
Lucid Dreaming
Wednesday April 7, 9am-1pm
W8: Evan Thompson
Neurophenomenology
W9: Katharine McGovern, Bernard Baars and Stanley Krippner
What Does Science Know about Extra-Ordinary States of Consciousness?
W10: Susan Blackmore
Teaching Consciousness
W11: Christof Koch
Visual Neuroscience and Visual Consciousness
W12: Paavo Pylkannen, Stuart Hameroff, Jack Tuszynski
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness
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Full program available at http://consciousness.arizona.edu/tucson2004/
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E-mail inquiries should be directed to: cen...@email.arizona.edu.
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Toward a Science of Consciousness 2004 Program Committee:
David Chalmers, Anthony Freeman, Stuart Hameroff, Terry Horgan,
Alfred Kaszniak, Christof Koch, Marilyn Schlitz.
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