The final program for the 2002 Tucson conference on "Toward a Science
of Consciousness" is now available. Program details are below. Full
details on registration, lodging, and the like are available online at
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/tucson2002/
--David Chalmers (program chair).
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TUCSON 2002: TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
April 8-12, 2002
Tucson Convention Center and Music Hall
PLENARY PROGRAM
Monday April 8
8:30-10:40 SENSORY SUBSTITUTION I: VISUAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN BLIND SUBJECTS?
Chair: David Chalmers
Paul Bach-y-Rita Tactile sensory substitution in blind subjects
Peter Meijer Seeing with sound: Is it vision?
Pat Fletcher Seeing with sound: A journey into sight
11:10-12:35 SENSORY SUBSTITUTION II: NEURAL PLASTICITY IN CROSSMODAL PERCEPTION
Chair: Joseph Tolliver
Mriganka Sur Rewiring cortex
Alva Noe Neural plasticity and consciousness: An enactive approach
2:00-4:10: NEURAL CORRELATES OF MEDITATIVE EXPERIENCE
Chair: Marilyn Schlitz
Andrew Newberg The neurochemical correlates of meditation
Fred Travis Cortical patterns of transcendental states
Antoine Lutz Synchrony patterns induced by 3D illusion in meditative states
4:30-6:35: Concurrent sessions [see below]
7:00-10:00 Poster session
Tuesday April 9
8:30-10:40 CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DECISION-MAKING
Chair: Mary Peterson
Elkhonon Goldberg Actor-centered decision-making and the frontal lobes
Michael Shadlen The time it takes to see and do: Acculuating the evidence
Ranulfo Romo Exploring the cortical evidence of a simple decision process
11:10-12:35 BINOCULAR RIVALRY AND THE NCC
Chair: Christof Koch
Randolph Blake Binocular rivalry as a tool for studying the NCC
Sheng He Parallel visual pathways to awareness
2:00-4:10: THE CONTENTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: Chris Maloney
Michael Tye Perceptual experience, phenomenal unity, and content
Susan Blackmore Are you sure you have the contents of consciousness?
Philip Pettit Motion blindness and the knowledge argument
4:30-6:35: Concurrent sessions [see below]
7:00-10:00 Poster session
Wednesday April 10
8:30-10:40 EMOTION AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: Lis Nielsen
Al Kaszniak Challenges in the empirical study of conscious emotion
Ralph Adolphs Understanding emotion: Insight from cognitive neuroscience
Dick Bierman An fMRI study of anomalous anticipation of emotional stimuli
11:10-12:35 MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: Axel Cleeremans
Ray Kurzweil How can we possibly tell if its conscious?
Rodney Brooks Metaphors for consciousness
5:00-8:30pm BANQUET (Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum)
Thursday April 11
8:30-10:40 CONSCIOUSNESS IN ACTION
Chair: Lynn Nadel
Vittorio Gallese From self-modeling to self-representation
Jeffrey Schall On the neural basis of self-control and self-monitoring
Daniella Meeker Cognitive control of prosthetic systems
11:10-12:35 IS THERE PURE CONSCIOUSNESS?
Chair: Charles Siewert
Barry Dainton The gaze of consciousness
Jonathan Shear A quale for pure consciousness?
2:00-4:10 ART, BRAIN, AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: Logan Trujillo
V. Ramachandran Synesthesia, qualia, and the meaning of art
Semir Zeki Neural concept formation and art: Dante, Michelangelo, Wagner
Amy Ione (comm.) Examining neurological investigations of art
4:30-6:35: Concurrent sessions [see below]
7:00-10:00 Poster session
10:00-11:30 Poetry Slam
Friday April 12
8:30-10:40 CONSCIOUSNESS AND WAKEFULNESS IN SLEEP AND COMA
Chair: Fred Plum
Carlos Schenck Parasomnias: Altered dreams and unconscious automatic states
Nicholas Schiff Evaluating consciousness is servely brain injured patients
Petra Stoerig (commentator)
11:10-12:35 NONCLASSICAL BRAIN PROCESSES
Chair: Stuart Hameroff
Andrew Duggins On the emergence paradox
Nancy Woolf The horizontal cortical syncytium: A model for the NCC
2:00-4:10 DOWNWARD CAUSATION AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: William Seager
Claus Emmeche Downward causation and the habits of mind
Dean Radin Exploring the limits of downward causation
William Robinson Zooming in on downward causation
7:00 "End of Consciousness" Party
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Concurrent sessions will be held from 4:30-6:35pm on Monday, Tuesday,
and Thursday. There will be six or seven sessions at a time, each of
which will include five talks of 20 minutes each, plus five minutes
each for discussion.
Monday April 8
PHENOMENAL CONCEPTS AND THE EXPLANATORY GAP
Chair: Robert van Gulick
D. Beisecker, R. Gordon, N. Maxwell, W. Savage, K. Stueber
THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS: FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES
Chair: Bernard Baars
A. Cleeremans, S. Horst, Y. Nakamura, A. Revonsuo, E. Schwitzgebel
CONSCIOUSNESS AND ACTION
Chair: Vittorio Gallese
H. Ehrsson, H. Johnson, D. Legrand, M. McBeath, F. Maeda
QUANTUM MECHANICS AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: Stuart Hameroff
A. Plotnisky, A. Priel, O. Rossler, S. Sevush, K. Wetz
ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: Susan Blackmore
M. Eagar, J. Hanna, R. Havens, T. Hubbard, C. Tart
ETHICS AND VALUES
Chair: Keith Sutherland
C. De Quincey, A. Freeman, D. Heikes, D. Merrifield, M. Spencer
Tuesday April 9
HIGHER-ORDER THOUGHT AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: Erik Myin
M. Ferrari, R. Gennaro, R. van Gulick, A. Vinueza, J. Weisberg
QUALIA AND MATERIALISM
Chair: Murat Aydede
T. Alter, A. Bailey, W. Hirstein, Y. Nagasawa, J. Symons
UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSES
Chair: Axel Cleeremans
M. Alkire, H. Haider, E. Norman, G. Sarty, M. Snodgrass
VISION AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: Rodney Brooks
J. Enns, S. Iwasaki, R. Kentridge, S. Lehar, W. Wojtach
FIRST-PERSON METHODS
Chair: Al Kaszniak
S. Brown, J. Coan, B. Faw, C. Heavey, R. Hurlburt
ART AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: Roy Ascott
K. Creath, S. Haworth, L. Lisowsky, M. Punt, M. Solano
PARAPSYCHOLOGY
Chair: Dean Radin
L. Johnson, A. Morgana, T. Richards, S. Schmidt, C. Seiter
Thursday April 11
THE CONTENTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: William Robinson
M. Aydede, E. Myin, J. Petranker, C. Siewert, B. Thompson
EMERGENCE AND PANPSYCHISM
Chair: Anthony Freeman
A. Rangarajan, G. Rosenberg, D. Skrbina, M. Silberstein, H. Wong
NEURAL SYNCHRONY AND BINOCULAR RIVALRY
Chair: Patrick Wilken
J. Hart, E. LaRock, S. Slotnick, Y. Tamori, L. Trujillo
SLEEP AND DREAMING
Chair: Nancy Woolf
M. Blagrove, D. Grasbon, D. Kahn, M. Kosmova, A. Zeman
CONSCIOUSNESS AND TIME
Chair: John Sanfey
J. Barresi, I. Havel, L. Hitterdale, K. Mogi, F. Ullen
CROSSCULTURAL APPROACHES
Chair: Jonathan Shear
J. Collins, M. Cornelissen, L. Pflueger, R. Sorenson, A. Wallace
POSTER SESSIONS
Poster sessions will be held on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday from
7:00-10:00pm.
PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
Preconference workshops will be held on the weekend preceding the
conference, April 6-7.
4/6, 9-6: Charles Tart
Observing the Mind -- Basic Training in Skillful Means
4/6, 9-1: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe
Consciousness, Literature, and Theatre
4/6, 2-6: William Seager
Philosophical Theories of Consciousness
4/6, 2-6: Peter Grossenbacher
Varieties of Synesthetic Perception
4/7, 9-1: Marco Iacoboni
Imitation, Language, and Intersubjectivity Studied with TMS and fMRI
4/7, 9-1: Susan Blackmore
Introduction to Memetics
4/7, 9-1: Stuart Hameroff, Paavo Pylkkanen, and Nancy Woolf
Quantum Computational Approaches to Consciousness
4/7, 9-1: Robert Kentridge and Charles Heywood
From Photons to Colors: The Neural Bases of Color Perception
4/7, 9-1: Antoine Lutz and Evan Thompson
Current Neurophenomenology Research
4/7, 2-6: Bernard Baars and Katherine McGovern
What We Have Learned About the Consciousness and the Brain
4/7, 2-6: Stephen Laberge
Exploring Consciousness with Lucid Dreaming
4/7, 2-6: Russell Hurlburt and Christopher Heavey
Using the Descriptive Experience Sampling Method to Explore Inner Experience
4/7, 2-6: Marilyn Schlitz and Charles Tart
Parapsychology: State of the Art and Implications for Consciousness Studies
4/7, 2-6: Axel Cleeremans
Implicit and Explicit Processes in Cognition
BANQUET
The conference banquet will be held at the world-famous Arizona-Sonora
Desert Museum (outdoors in a beautiful location) from 5pm on Wednesday
April 10.
POETRY SLAM
Following conference tradition, a consciousness poetry slam will be
held at 10pm on Thursday April 11. Any and all poetry on themes
related to consciousness and the conference is welcomed.