TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 1998
TUCSON, ARIZONA
APRIL 27 - MAY 2, 1998
This is the final call for registration for the third Tucson
conference on "Toward a Science of Consciousness". The conference
will take place from Monday April 27 to Saturday May 2, 1998, at the
Tucson Convention Center and Music Hall, sponsored by the University
of Arizona.
Included below is an outline of plenary sessions and speakers, a list
of concurrent sessions, and registration details. More details
(including information on pre-conference workshops, poster sessions,
abstracts, lodging, detailed schedule, and so on) can be found on the
conference web sites at:
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/page.htm (general information)
http://www.zynet.co.uk/imprint/Tucson/ (abstracts, etc)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE: David Chalmers, Stuart Hameroff, Alfred Kaszniak,
Christof Koch, Marilyn Schlitz, Alwyn Scott, Petra Stoerig, Keith
Sutherland, Michael Winkelman
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PLENARY SESSIONS
Monday April 27
PL1: THE SELF
* G. Strawson: The self.
* M.S. Gazzaniga: The mind's past.
* J. Shear: Experiential clarification of `The problem of self'.
PL2: IMPLICIT PROCESSES
* A. Greenwald: Simple mental feats that require conscious cognition
(because unconscious cognition can't do them.)
* P. Merikle: Is there memory for events during anesthesia?
PL3: PATHWAYS OF VISUAL CONSCIOUSNESS
* D. Milner: Unconscious visual processing for action:
neuropsychological evidence.
* M. Goodale: Unconscious visual processing for action: evidence
from normal observers.
* M. Mishkin: On the neural basis of visual awareness.
Tuesday April 28
PL4: SLEEP AND DREAMING
* B. McNaughton, Neural ensembles in sleep and waking and the
reprocessing of recent experience
* J.A. Hobson: Neuropsychology of dreaming consciousness.
* S. LaBerge: Lucid dreaming: psychophysiological studies of
consciousness during REM sleep.
PL5: INTEGRATIVE PERSPECTIVES
* C. Koch: Visual awareness and the frontal lobes.
* M. Tye: Representation and consciousness.
PL6: COLOR AND CONSCIOUSNESS
* S. Palmer: Color, consciousness, and the isomorphism constraint
* C.L. Hardin: Color quality and color structure.
* M. Nida-Rumelin: Pseudonormal vision and color qualia
Wednesday April 29
PL7: TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY
* F. Vaughan: Essential dimensions of consciousness: Objective,
subjective and intersubjective.
* H. Hunt: Transpersonal and cognitive psychologies of consciousness:
A necessary and reciprocal dialogue.
* M. Schlitz: Transpersonal consciousness? Assessing the evidence.
PL8: EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE AND THE BRAIN
* A. Kaszniak: Conscious experience and autonomic response to emotion
following frontal lobe damage.
* R.D. Lane: Subregions within the anterior cingulate cortex may
differentially participate in phenomenal and reflective conscious
awareness of emotion.
Thursday April 30
PL9: EVOLUTION AND FUNCTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS I
* S. Mithen: Handaxes: Some hard evidence regarding the evolution
of the mind and consciousness
* W. Calvin: Competing for consciousness: A Darwinian mechanism on
the timescale of thought and action.
* A.G. Cairns-Smith: If qualia evolved...
PL10: EVOLUTION AND FUNCTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS II
* R.L. Gregory: What do qualia do?
* N. Humphrey: The privatization of sensation
PL11: THE EXPLANATORY GAP
* J. Levine: Conceivability, possibility, and the explanatory gap
* C. McGinn: How not to solve the mind-body problem
* G. Rosenberg: On the intrinsic nature of the physical.
Friday May 1
PL12: CULTURE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
* A. Zajonc: Goethe and the science of consciousness: Toward a
scientist's phenomenology of mind.
* C. Laughlin: Biogenetic structural theory and the neurophenomenology
of consciousness.
* M. Winkelman: The fundamental properties of systems with
consciousness.
PL13: BLINDSIGHT
* P. Stoerig, A. Cowey, R. Goebel: Blindsight and its neuronal basis.
* R. Kentridge, C. Heywood, L. Weiskrantz: Attentional cueing in
blindsight
PL14: SPACE, TIME, AND CONSCIOUSNESS
* P. Hut: Exploring actuality, through experiment and experience.
* K. Yasue: Consciousness and photon dynamics in the brain.
* B. Hiley: Quantum theory, the implicate order, and the mind/matter
relationship
Saturday May 2
PL15: NEURAL CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
* B. Baars: Is a real psychoscope possible? Inferring when brain
scans show us conscious experiences.
* A. Revonsuo: How to take consciousness seriously in cognitive
neuroscience.
* J.B. Newman: Beyond pandemonium: the role of the reticular core
in unifying the stream of consciousness
PL16: AESTHETICS AND CONSCIOUSNESS
* C.W. Tyler: The structure of interpersonal consciousness in art.
* T. Grodal: Aesthetic feelings of subjectivity in film as blocked
action potentials.
* A. Bergesen: Artistic consciousness: the art faculty of mind.
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CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Each session will have five speakers. For more details, see the
conference web site.
Monday April 27
C1: Qualia
C2: Neural correlates of consciousness
C3: Implicit cognition
C4: Time
C5: Isomorphism between phenomenology and neuroscience
C6: Crosscultural perspectives
Tuesday April 28
C7: Materialism and dualism
C8: The function of consciousness
C9: Attention and vision
C10: Quantum biology and consciousness
C11: Parapsychology
C12: Consciousness and literature
C13: Awareness, attention, and memory during sleep
Thursday April 30
C14: The concept of consciousness
C15: Computational and cognitive models
C16: Blindsight
C17: Evolution of consciousness
C18: Altered states of consciousness
C19: First-, second-, and third-person perspectives
C20: Unconscious influences on motivational/affective awareness
Friday May 1
C21: Unity of consciousness and the self
C22: Ethics
C23: Sleep and dreaming
C24: Consciousness and physical reality
C25: Emotion and volition
C26: Art, music, and consciousness
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REGISTRATION FORM
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Conference Fees
___ Registration fee (payment received after Feb 2) $325.00
___ Student registration fee (full-time students with ID) $150.00
Other Fees
___ Banquet, April 29, White Stallion Ranch $55.00
___ Guest at banquet (Name ___________________________) $55.00
Meal choice: ___ chicken ___ salmon ___ vegetarian
Pre-conference Workshops
Saturday, April 25
All day
___ Observing the Mind (C. Tart) $90.00
___ Dream Interpretation (D. Roomy) $90.00
Morning
___ Health, Healing and Consciousness (Kohatsu et al) $45.00
Afternoon
___ "Global workspace" capacity in the brain (B. Baars) $45.00
Sunday, April 26
Morning
___ Overview of Tucson III (V. Shamas) $45.00
___ Quantum Theory and Consciousness (P. Pylkkanen) $45.00
___ Exceptional Experience in Sports (White & Brown) $45.00
Afternoon
___ The Mammalian Visual System (C. Koch) $45.00
___ Consciousness and Lucid Dreaming (S. LaBerge) $45.00
___ Consciousness and the Binding Problem (A. Revonsuo) $45.00
Field Trips
___ Sabino Canyon $45.00
___ Tubac and San Xavier $45.00
Total $_____
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